Ashes of Tomorrow

We draw the lines
Then call them fate
We build the bombs
Then hesitate

We write the laws
To keep control
We sell the truth
And buy the soul

Another march
Another flame
Different flags
The same old name

We light the fire
Then watch it glow
We never learn
We never know

We paint the peace
In shades of gray
We pray for life
Then look away

We raise our hands
To bless the fight
We call it wrong
Then say it’s right

Another speech
Another lie
The dead don’t care
Who gets rights

We light the fire
Then watch it glow
We never learn
We never know

The ashes fall
On kings and slaves
No names remain
No souls to save
A thousand years
Of smoke and pain
And still we load
The gun again

Tell me leaders
Tell me truth

How do you sleep
With blood on hands?

What’s the cost
You choose to hide?

How many tears
Make you feel right?

Do you see
The children’s eyes?
Do they haunt
Your alibis?

Or is the silence
Worth the throne?
When all that’s left
Is dust and bone.

We light the fire
Then watch it glow

We never learn
We light the fire

We watch it glow
We never learn
We never know

The ashes fall
Tomorrow comes
We start again
The lesson’s gone