I was born out of the sand The son of the boulder king Destined for barren living But I shun the underland Fate chose me to be a seer As of this I have no fear Forty nights I roam away Following the hidden tracks Reading clues within the cracks Ancient myths speak of a way Leading to fabled cities I carry on and there it is A palace of cobblestone Half buried under the crust I will reveal all the secrets The caves once were like a home Of ancient times this place is proof Bit by bit I see the truth There was a world aboveground Green and blue and nothing ablaze Nothing like our furnace days I begin to understand The elders made us that way Turned us into clay We are the Heirs of time The altered folk of a world gone by Yes forever The heirs of time The descendants as an alibi The survivors Shadows of a fallen race We were spliced up for the grit Became the people of the rift Altered to endure the place Is it a gift or a curse For better or worse We are the Heirs of time The altered folk of a world gone by Yes forever The heirs of time The descendants as an alibi The survivors