Objects Outlive Us: The Cicerones/Ark

Back then, in time, we spoke up for the Earth
The truth, the proof, but in our hearts the words
We used were not to break or kill this spell
Only, to warn, to track, the dark that fell
And now, here we be the few that survive
The ones who knew, look back in our hindsight
Knowing always there would, should be, an end
Knowing it was just a question of when
Each of these souls, just one in a billion
Each of the stars, just one in a trillion
We move on through, so dead, so black, the void
And still, back there, in dust, the Earth, destroyed

Back then, in time, we spoke up for the Earth
The truth, the proof, but in our hearts the words
We used were not to break or kill this spell
Only, to warn, to track, the dark that fell
And now, here we be the few that survive
The ones who knew, look back in our hindsight
Knowing always there would, should be, an end
Knowing it was just a question of when
Each of these souls, just one in a billion
Each of the stars, just one in a trillion
We move on through, so dead, so black, the void
And still, back there, in dust, the Earth, destroyed