Four and a half million years ago
 The earth was lifeless and new
 Life forms starting to appear
 And fossils are the clues

 Slowly migrating from the sea
 To one day dominate the land
 Early reptilians had evolved
 Millions of years before man

 Unchallenged masters of their world
 One hundred forty million year reign
 Reptilian gods stalking the earth
 Undisturbed primal and serene

 Mountains of flesh shaking the ground
 Armored like a living tank
 While our ancestors rodent-like
 Trampled underfoot

 Our minds can't conceive the forms of life
 That have lived here before us
 On the sites where our cities sprawl
 Herds grazed and continued to evolve

 Man's time on earth is barely a blink
 Of the eye of time
 And our predecessors fossilized

 No seven day miracle created our world
 From the void delivered
 We have only just learned to walk
 Once we had to slither

 Our kind will vanish as did theirs
 Leaving only traces entombed
 Till those who follow unearth our remains
 What will their studies conclude?

 Engine of death in its highest form
 Carnivore evolved to perfection
 Modern predators so insignificant
 Up against this tyrant king

 What catastrophe fell from the skies
 Ending their domination?
 Wiped off the face of the earth
 Not one survived extinction

 Man's time on earth is barely a blink
 Of the eye of time
 Our destination is written in bones
 And our predecessors fossilized