Sad State Of Affairs

Keep your distance, don't cross that line

You stay on your side, and I'll stay on mine

Fear and ignorance intertwine

Twisting and wrenching infecting my mind

I'm begging I'm pleading

Can't help but feeling

If love was a person, that person's not breathing

We bleed the same blood

We break the same bones

We fan the same flame

We cast the same stones

We magnify subtleties up in our heads

Till compassion and empathy wind up dead

Piercing glances through darkened eyes

Your true intentions outshine your disguise

Finding new reasons to justify

Painting the age old dividing lines

Sacrificing compromising

Sucking me dry

I'm begging I'm pleading

Can't help but feeling

If love was a person, that person's not breathing

We bleed the same blood

We break the same bones

We fan the same flame

We cast the same stones

We magnify subtleties up in our heads

Till compassion and empathy wind up dead

It simply means that every nation

Must be concerned about every other

Nation

Every individual must be concerned about every other individual

Through our scientific genius, we made of the world a neighborhood

We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish

Together as fools

I'm begging I'm pleading

Can't help but feeling

If love was a person, that person's not breathing

We bleed the same blood

We break the same bones

We fan the same flame

We cast the same stones

We magnify subtleties up in our heads

Till compassion and empathy wind up dead

I'm begging I'm pleading

I'm asking I'm needing

I'm ripping I'm clawing

I'm desperately seeking

A vision, a sign

A weapon, sublime

To vanquish the hatred and leave it behind

We bleed the same blood

We break the same bones

We fan the same flame

We cast the same stones

And all we'll have left at the end of the day

Is a mountain of nothing

A vacuum, decay