From the recording LP11 FUTARIA
CHALLENGE: SOCIAL & ECONOMIC INSTABILITY
Wealth concentration: AI and automation could widen global inequality.
Mistrust & polarization: Social media and disinformation fueling divisions.
Migration pressures: Climate refugees and urban crowding straining social cohesion.
Lyrics
KINGDOMS OF DUST
Verse 1
The gilded towers scrape the sky,
While streets below are left to die.
Machines inherit the work of hands,
And fortune slips through shifting sands.
Pre-Chorus
The gap expands, a silent wound,
A world divided, fate consumed.
A hunger rising, sharp and vast,
The shadows lengthen, the die is cast.
Chorus
Kingdoms of dust, built high, then broken,
Lines of the lost, unhealed, unspoken.
Echoes of wealth, and echoes of need,
A fractured world where empires bleed.
Verse 2
The screen deceives with crafted lies,
Truth is drowned where division thrives.
The crowd turns inward, the trust decays,
Polarized in a hall of haze.
Pre-Chorus
The borders harden, the cities strain,
The masses move through drought and rain.
From shattered lands, the exiles go,
Yet mercy fades where the rivers flow.
Chorus
Kingdoms of dust, built high, then broken,
Lines of the lost, unhealed, unspoken.
Echoes of wealth, and echoes of need,
A fractured world where empires bleed.
Bridge
Iron gates and silent screams,
Buried lives and broken dreams.
Every wall a tomb of stone,
Every throne a curse alone.
Final Chorus
Kingdoms of dust, built high, then broken,
Lines of the lost, unhealed, unspoken.
Echoes of wealth, and echoes of need,
A fractured world where empires bleed.
The ashes fall, the silence true —
A world undone by what we drew.