[Verse]
The moment calls for haste; prepare ... the race is near.
An empty page awaits our mark; and time is scarce and dear.

What’s past has slipped away; what’s coming veils from sight,
we inherit great knowledge, yet lack true wisdom’s light.

Are we condemned to tread each failing step once more,
relive each tragedy played out so many times before?

[Pre-Chorus]
Look around!
Trace the patterns; none of this is new.
We refuse to ever learn; to our flaws we still stay true.

[Chorus]
To forget is our curse,
numb and blind, we weigh the universe.

Heed the voices still echoing through history ...
Why won't we listen?
They could spare us misery.

Tell me,
what will it take for us to see
that we’re circling endlessly?

We know where these dark roads can lead ...
sad but true:

we pay for what we breed.

Oohoohoooo

[Instrumental]

[Verse]
We trample down the weak, we make them bow and bleed,
we walk on broken bodies just to feed our endless greed.

No thought for those to follow; we take what we can claim,
the world we leave behind may drown in ash and flame.

[Bridge]
Maybe that's our nature, bound upon the wheel of time.
We’re granted but one life, they say ...
regret comes rarely in our prime.

[Pre-Chorus]
Look around!
Trace the patterns ... you see them everywhere:
higher, faster ... at any cost, we simply do not care...

[Chorus]
To forget is our curse,
numb and blind, we weigh the universe.

Heed the voices still echoing through history ...
Why won't we listen?
They could spare us misery.

Tell me,
what will it take for us to see
that we’re circling endlessly?

We know where these dark roads can lead ...
sad but true:

we pay for what we breed.

Oohoohoooo

[Interlude]

[Verse - emotional]
And once again we stand aside as tyrants slowly rise;
the price is paid in blood ... in precious human lives.

“Never again” ...

we once swore as one, a vow the world had spoken.
Yet war drums thunder once again;
that sacred oath is broken.

[Bridge]
We have the means to make this world a paradise for everyone,

with no one poor, no mouths unfed,

no need to ever raise a gun.

But we choose to turn away; we doubt what trust is worth ...
Are we too different to build our heaven on this wounded earth?

[Break]
Guess that's how it is...
and how it will always be.

We’re trapped, condemned to rewrite the same sad history.

[Pre-Chorus]
Just look around the world!
The pattern’s all too clear;
the stage is set already ... another firestorm draws near.

[Final-Chorus]
To forget is our curse,
numb and blind, we weigh the universe.

Heed the voices still echoing through history ...
Why won't we listen?
They could spare us misery.

Tell me,
what will it take for us to see
that we’re circling endlessly?

We know where these dark roads can lead ...
thus it remains:

we pay for what we breed.

Oohoohoooo

[End]