The last ocean: The age of industrialization (era 1850 AD)

[Ocean Motif - 2 Notes Only] ((OM: 2 original notes, mechanical, mp)) ((listener now clearly distressed)) ((mechanical percussion: mp, steam, industrial)) ((Victorian orchestra: f, corrupted, consuming)) ((∅ ancient instruments — Western orchestra dominates)) [Narrated with whispering voice] We built the engines that could cross it faster We mapped the depths and found the whales We took what science said was ours to take And called the taking progress [Ocean Motif - Between Verse] ((OM: 2 notes, mechanical, distorted)) ((Victorian brass: industrial, consuming)) ((barely the ocean now)) [Narrated with whispering voice] Fifty thousand whales in a single decade The oil of their bodies lit our cities We did not mourn the darkness after them We found another fuel [Chorus - The Industrial Truth] ((OM: mp, 2 notes, mechanical)) ((Victorian choir: f, industrial mass)) We made the ocean our trade Every living thing—reduced The water had no vote in all of this No place within our rule [Narrated with whispering voice] Our ships grew longer than our memory Our nets grew wider than our wisdom The ocean floor that no one walked on Still bears the scars of our ambition [Final Chorus - The Accounting] ((OM: f, 2 notes, mechanical, consuming)) ((Victorian choir: f, industrial maximum)) We turned the ocean into our trade And now the shelves are bare The water had no voice at all But still the water kept the count [Outro - OM Nearly Gone] ((mechanical percussion: mp → pp, steam fading)) ((Victorian orchestra: f → mp, consuming)) ((OM: 2 notes → 1 note, barely)) ((industrial choir: pp, fading)) ((1 original OM note: sustained, alone))