[Verse 1]
Just now I believed
Mankind was noble
Enough so when peace
Could be had around
But it yells for war
Extreme cruelty
Nor does it bring
A hint of peace
[Verse 2]
I wade in the swamp of reason
The landfill of wisdom
Maybe once I would learn
To recognize my blindness
Without protection
It would hand over my heart
For each one, which
Thirsts blood from the heart
[Chorus]
In their tall glass houses
Men of power nod pondering
The inevitability which leads
A beautiful hand to good
We run away from here
My love briefly stays to see
Now as a salt statue on the edge of the desert
Her brittle figure is smouldering
[Verse 3]
I only want to write
Grow alongside my love
Do my work well
Learn from my mistakes
Now I count days
And measure nights because
How I learn to understand
The shades of hate
[Verse 4]
All good, children
Daddy is leaving for war
To serve a machine
Which reaps all from its path
Power topples power
Weak eat each other
A tribe of lackeys
Rises to its glory
[Verse 5]
Evening, we hold
Each other's hands
Without saying anything
Words have burned out
In the heights above
Black crows fly
In the ruins they find
Our ashes
[Chorus]
In their tall glass houses
Men of power nod pondering
The inevitability which leads
A beautiful hand to good
We run away from here
My love briefly stays to see
Now as a salt statue on the edge of the desert
Her brittle figure is smouldering
In their tall glass houses
Men of power nod pondering
The inevitability which leads
A beautiful hand to good
We run away from here
My love briefly stays to see
Now as a salt statue on the edge of the desert
Her brittle figure is smouldering