I try to imagine a time when things weren't this way   but years have come and gone with the seasons   and for better or worse this is how it is      is this the price we must pay?      oh how we revere our mountains of concrete and steel   across every nation a decaying metropolis burns   our way of life bought and stolen with blood sweat and tears   and the machine keeps pressing on      our assault on the earth has taken its toll   now devastation lies behind our sorrow   the undying screams of tortured souls   shall forever possess tomorrow      within this darkened globe of mounting terror   on the eve of destruction where despair is life   the reigns of ignorance plummet us towards calamity   unseen is the coming strife      as this world disappears we stand on the outside looking in   we've tried so hard to move the moon and touch the stars   and now we swim in tainted oceans of a better day      across fields of yesterday the specters of the past   loom ahead - taunting voices long devoid of breath   they watch us follow in their stead   take a hopeless glance into the future do we stand a chance?      I awake from a dream to be hurled into this nightmare   and I long to return to sleep   cause everyday I rise to a crimson sky   she sheds her gentle tears on me   but each drop cuts like a knife   and the bruises and scars will never subside   each passing day our brutality grows stronger   each passing day means the pain's lasted longer      and I can feel the pain   and I can feel her pain   what will become of this world - devastation tomorrow?   hold on for one more day