we could not see the trouble coming · happy in that golden time
we saw our normalcy unfurl · lunar in that golden time

we watched our rosy miracles · batten in the sweet sunshine
and all our deals with Moloch throve, · Moloch, in that golden time

we knew what we had done was wrong · to all the lesser echelons
which did not stop us glorying in · freedom in that golden time

our aspirations harry us · as gift by gift they slip away
such stuff as dreams are built on, we · abolish in that golden time