Amnesia

There was no intention But we forgot to listen There was no prediction But we changed direction Somewhere we lost our way We invented a plague We spread it in our veins It's the end of days The fire's rising, all who kneel There was a time the Earth stood still And life was built on human will We started the Universe, turning Today always takes too long and then You wake up and tomorrow's gone You fan the flames, even when you're wrong And you would leave the rest of us burning It's a literal invention Designed to condition A moment of submission In a war of division When the world can see That none of us can breathe Then we all can dream Of who we choose to be The fire's rising, all who kneel There was a time the Earth stood still And life was built on human will We started the Universe, turning Today always takes too long and then You wake up and tomorrow's gone You fan the flames, even when you're wrong And you would leave the rest of us burning