Summit

Keep walking forward, step in line

Dead inside and anesthetised to thought and pain

We're always watching our footing, treading all so carefully

When conscience is all we can depend on

Separating men from machines in a manufactured world

Where we've all grown numb to self-assessment and self-control

Yet still so quick to judge one another

Crawling back to a finish line

With no reward for our constant strive

We know nothing of sacrifice

No sense of consequence pervades our minds

We've walked this path for far too long

And every day, every day I feel it slip further away

The minutes tick by, and turn to years

And in the morning I'll awake believing nothing new has changed

Except my outlook has turned inside

And now I've seen the fading lights

Grow cold and turn to night

The only warning sign

To cut these worldly ties

We'll align ourselves with the stars

And tell the world we know who we are

Based on reflections in deception's mirror

Anesthetised to thought and pain

We take what we're given, with no second guess

And walk away all the same

We owe no allegiance

Give rise to your own independence

The dawn of a new era

Where lives are valued and not regarded

As commodities for the worst of men

Take my hand

It's no utopian promised land

This will take everything

Seeking light of our own

Breathe in life, breathe in hope

Seeking light of our own

Breathe in life, breathe in hope

Breathe in hope

We've walked this path for far too long