The Human Stain

See the cemetery sky

Carmine red and deep

Watch the oceans rising high

It's the human stain

Talk about the growing hunger

Ask why with deep concerne

Don't you think

The human race is ceaselessly vain?

But it hurts to be alive, my friend

In this silent tide we're driftwood passing by

Don't you wish you were a child again?

Just for a minute

Just for a minute more

Hear the ticking of a clock

The sound of life itself

No one really wants to die

To save the world

Tell me that you're torn asunder

From how we fail to learn

And tell me

As the Earth goes under

Where's your anger now

So it hurts to be alive, my friend

In this masquerade where all one day must die

Don't you wish you were unborn again?

Just for a minute

Just for a minute more

Tic-toc

The ticking that could tear asunder

The beating from a heart of stone

The loss of your divine prosperity

'Cause it costs to be alive, my friend

And this life that someone merely gave to you

That's the price you pay

Minute by minute

You beg for a minute more