4th Dimension Opera House

We found a well that defies the laws of thermodynamics

We found a well that powers all our mechanics

An endless energy supply – from here in the ground

Surely, we must tell the entire town

People lined up for miles

Eagerly anticipating easier lives

But some more than others

Took days at a time

Impatience led to anger

And anger to crime

Voices escalating

Such elitist defiance

We started at self-sufficiency and finished with violence

I coulda sworn

That this is everything we ever wanted

Soon enough the wall was regulated

Government running it and charging for the benefit

As you would expect some gained a sense of co-dependence

While others came to riot civil, national, continental wars

Over-population like never before

The fuel industry in its entirety

Was run into the ground

There were no more job opportunities

For the people of my little town

And the more poverty that struck

The more we relied on ourselves

But without jobs, we have no money to fund the war to protect our well

I guess the world before wasn’t so bad after all

I guess the world before wasn’t so bad after all

And so our country took the money

That it still had left

And dropped a nuclear bomb

Into the cavernous chest of the well

No more reason for war, no more proverbial hell

The world decided to start over

Erasing any record of the events that occurred

And ten thousand years later... we found a well