On the last pneumatic encounter
100 years before you in time
Who'd have thought that we would go further?
Phonographs, machines that can fly
Found the world eclipsed by a fever
Cutting down the young in their prime
How it shudders from its expanding
How it trembles, lungs on the line
How convulsive, gasps of the modern"¦
Reaching out to grasp hands with mine
On our last pneumatic encounter
Find the world eclipsed by a fever
Striking masses down in their prime
How it trembles while it's unwinding
How it shudders, lungs on the line