Pain Of Salvation: Nihil morari

"See me""Hear me""Need me"Some things will never change"Touch me""Heal me"Mankind remains the sameOceansForestsNationsNow everything bears our nameWhile Earth is bleedingNothing will remainNothing prevailsWe were stuck in this world of changeExpecting it to remainNow nothing is left unstainedNo!When there's nothing more that we can tradeOwnStealOr sellWhen there's nothing whole because we took it apartAndJust leftMoved onWhen there's nothing left for us to breakUseAbuseOr rapeThen you're free to count how much you savedI can see the ways we failI can see us fall so easilyA structure far too frailI can see 40,000 years of knowledge and historyInvested in this childSpoiled and stained by proud divinityGaining at best the perspective and wisdomOf not even a fleeting centuryWe have now reached the final ten thousandth of a secondof our evolutionary year, as we hit 2,000 at a birth rateof 250 people a minuteTell meHow are we supposed to survive?If we're acting like foolsAll dropping dead to stay alive?Someone tell mePlease just show meIf there's nothing to do, God we'll turn to youBut if we're an image of youI reckon you are just as puzzled and ugly tooYou think we have developed fast; that we're civilized and intelligentI'll let you in on a secret: we have developed Things!The rest is simply knowledge passed on(I can see us drain this worldI can see us buying loss too cheapTerra Sterilia washing its bronken hand of us nowCreation's blackest sheep!)Hell, 99% of humanity couldn't put together a simple light bulb if youput a gun to their heads!And the intellect rubs off on fearThe year 2,010 AD: 6,823 Million people2,020 AD: 7,518 Million people2,030 AD: 8,140 Million people2,040 AD: 8,668 Million people2,050 AD: 9,104 Million peopleI can see us read the signsBut spell them out in backward travestyI see us close our eyesTo all the wounds that we inflict to this world by being "free"We love this world to deathPurchasing our lifestyles with our livesDefending our momentarily nationsWith the loss of our priceless earthly homeIt's not hard to reach the topIt's not hard not knowing when to stopIt's not hard to take allNot very difficult to fly if you settle for a fallIt's not hard to cross a lineIt's not hard to push and go to farSome creatures cannot climbThen there are us who cannot even learn how to stay aliveI'm sorry!For the things we did and did not doForgive us; the fools that rushed ahead without a clueI am sorryPlease forgive usFor this human lack of humanityThis evolutionary travestyThis tragedy called "Man"...called "Man"...I'm sorry!For the things we did and didn't doForgive us; the fools that rushed ahead without a single clue...without a single clue...