Desolate Isle

Where is the peace that they promised we’d find?

Peace for our cities our children our minds?

We are desperate and lost on the winds

Of ideals that keep changing their course

Utopian dreamers only bring us new wars

We are desolate at another dead end

So why does the tide always brings us to this?

If heaven is real why’s it easy to miss?

I want life but I'm content to exist

Without knowing my purpose

Where are the prophets the priests and the kings

Who looked beyond nature for the nature of things?

They’ve been ignored

And called primitive men cause their theories weren’t fully evolved

They believed mysteries that science can’t solve

But I'm unsure that we’re wiser than them

We look at the world through a narrower lens

We follow our reason and stop where she ends

We put faith in our senses and forsake common sense

It’s disorder but we call it a new world order

Are we so righteous that we can make all the wrongs right?

Are we so enlightened that we can turn darkness to light? (No) We’re just the cynics proclaiming the flaws

We aim our polemic at political laws

We’re fighting the symptoms because we can’t see

Our greed is the cause

Oh yes, our greed is the cause

We stand as judges when we should be standing on trial

We’re the ones who make this world a desolate isle

We’re the problem – every father every mother every child

But the truth is we’ve grown to love the exile

On this rock we’ve taken our stand

Joined by the leagues of men now buried in sand

Babylon – we’ll build her again

The great city of man

But this time we'll be sure she will stand!

But on this rock the castles will fall

(Here comes the light cast to wipe out the walls)

We can’t keep the waves of time from reaching the walls

(Oh dear humanity, where is your sanity?)

Every man – the great and the small

(And the women and the children)

When the Tide overtakes us Justice will take us all

(Justice will break us, shake us just in time to see our wretched seeds)

Are we so righteous that we can make all the wrongs right?

Are we so enlightened that we can turn darkness to light?

Are we so righteous that grace doesn’t have any worth?

Are we so enlightened that we can build heaven on earth?

No!

Are we so righteous grace has no longer has worth?

(Who can save us?)

Are we so enlightened that we can build heaven on earth?

(Who can save us?)

Are we so righteous we can make all the wrongs right?

(Who can save us?)

Are we so enlightened we can turn darkness to light?

(Who can save us?)

Are we convinced that we can save ourselves?