One spark one cell one life
two choices wrong and right
three million questions
without a single answer in sight.
Welcome humanity
Choose now to fight or flee.
Embrace this insanity
the very mark of humanity.
One light one dawn one fire
the brilliance in the night.
Divergent pathways
potential with no ending in sight.
Welcome humanity
Choose now to fight or flee
No, you cannot escape from this world. Yeah there’s nowhere to hide.
No, you can’t just sit back & deride. Yeah there’s nowhere to turn.
No, you cannot escape from this truth. As if there’s one for you.
Are we simply along for the ride? Wait in line for your time to die.
Embrace insanity
the very mark of humanity.
Welcome humanity
Choose now to fight or flee.
No, you cannot escape from this world. Yeah there’s nowhere to hide.
No, you can’t just sit back & deride. Yeah there’s nowhere to turn.
No, you cannot escape from this truth. As if there’s one for you.
We’re not simply along for the ride? Wait in line for your time to die.
Never enough pills to kill the pain.
A temple defiled
Never enough bombs to quell the outrage.
You can’t stop the wild.
No monsters left to blame,
As we remain idle
There’s one for all, but they're one and the same.
Our devils do smile.
War, it’s your answer to everything
We need more, more sales less charity.
Distort our sense of bravery
to ignore, all signs of catastrophe.
Decide right now to join or discount
All the lies and deception
All the plain contradiction
We’re about fear and consent
An unconscious decent
Into the mirrors lament
Staring back at the face you both own and resent.
There still is time,
To find reason and rhyme
For the method of madness
For the depths of our sadness.
And wasted time I still have faith
In the sick human race
Turn you back on opinion
On the hate for you brothers and stop to embrace
Your mind, your heart
Though they both play a part
Though they both play a part
When your time comes, and goes
Will you know when to start.
They’ll say there’s time
Time to pull in the lines
They’ll say there’s time
Round and round, we go
Down the trail we will fall
There still is time
Fight or flee
Die or be
Decide now.
credits
from Conversion,
released September 24, 2016
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