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(chorus)What now? |
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Now you would destroy the earth |
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Dry, the river beds |
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What now? |
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Now in your control, birth and death |
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Dry, the bodies, incandescent in the heat |
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Your fire is melting both soil and soul |
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In plan maybe, is that not enough? |
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Your war and raving of it is so total |
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You're consumed by it as you'd consume us |
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Would you see the fire from your sanctuary of death? |
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What terrible pain you need to hide |
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In your hatred you'd seek to destroy the earth |
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What is it that you have been denied? |
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Your mind and its rantings are so barren |
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What the **** are you thinking? |
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What the ****? |
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Your eyes and their vision, empty, staring |
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What the **** are you seeing? |
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What the ****? |
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So singularly your motives, yet impossible to define |
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How finely lined my destiny in the cobwebs of your crime |
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So insular your future, so alien your plan |
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Take all of this if you will and take what |
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I canA town that is no more"My God", you say, "What have I done?" |
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But you won't heed what's gone before"What pity?", you say, "There is none" |
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And so you drive the world to war |
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But this war will not be lost or won |
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The desolation that you've seen but never saw |
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Is the lesson that you teach, but never learn |
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But would you see the fire in the world where you exist? |
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Will your hard eyes register the pain? |
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Are you so cold that there is no distress? |
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Where there's death would you give death again? |
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No flowers in your landscape, some withered rose |
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Kicked amongst the corpses where they lay |
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Halted where all hope died, froze |
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By the horror of your acts compelled to stay |
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Unnoticed all this in your lusting after death |
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How determined that your darkness should be shared |
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Unnoticed in your blindness this miracle of breath |
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What element of beauty attracts your cruel desire? |
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Would you see the burning? |
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Is that your delight? |
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Would you have me see it in your stead? |
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Would you feel my yearning? |
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Peace, life, light |
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Body, breath. |
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Would you take all this? |
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What is it that you're seeking, so cold and so deprived? |
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What is it that you dream of in your empty eyeless head? |
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Why must I share your lust of death? |
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Can you not die alone? |
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Why must I share your fear of breath |
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Life, light, |
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PEACE? |
