The Great Gift of the World

Lyrics

If it all went away tomorrow Would there be anything worthy of the salvage Or would the world be swallowed by the sea A blissful silence in return to harmony And would there be any need for possessions Cultured regret The loss of progress The passing of the flesh Marrow to market Burn for the treasure But remember the children who won't have it any better than this What has been left for them Where there once was hope Now there is only pain The great gift of the world Have you felt the hope leave you? The guiding light It recedes as fast all Dark days They welcome you into a body Beaten and raw So polluted and vile Broken dreams and fractured minds Twisted tongues Swallow the blood back They swallow the light We drink of the wine And eat of the bread But still we're starving Undeserving of death No, we will not find heaven We will not find our place We will not find the light We will not find our way Where there once was hope Now there is only pain The great gift of the world In life It rots a man from the inside In death We escape an existence in vain And in time Where could we hide When the soul is the cancer It consumes It yearns for more Conditioned to thrive in the slaughter Our sons and daughters will mourn for the martyrs we betrayed A murderer's mind A murderer's hands Cursed I walk with man Covered in the blood The blood of the lamb Now you see the hope leave you Was the guiding light ever there at all? Or were the flames The bellows of hell The calling for the desperate The symbol of the fall No, we will not find heaven We will not find our place We will not find the light We will not find our way Where there once was hope Now there is only pain The great gift of the world