I've seen the ugliness of humanity It sits at home and watches the world burn Mass production, mass consumption, mass destruction With our complacency We dig our own graves ♪ We dig our own graves, yeah ♪ I've seen the ugliness of humanity It sits at home and watches the world burn As we watch the collapse through a television What do I tell my child? How do I save them? ♪ How do I lie To such innocence? We could have saved our children Instead we dug their graves Guilt takes hold of me As I find the words Blood of my blood I wish I had the answers That I could say it will be okay (okay) That tomorrow's a new day As I comfort you to sleep I'm unsure I can keep this promise When the future looks so bleak ♪ Sleep now, child Dream of the life you deserve The one we failed to give
Mourn for the children that inherit the polluted earth The factory fires, a funeral pyre As we lower our children To the poisoned earth ♪ I can't watch it burn I can't watch it burn Bred to consume Born to lose How do I tell my children They were born into a world that's doomed? As I watch you gently lull off to sleep I feel the heaviness of a promise I can't keep A lie, when all we could do to help fell on deaf ears Ushering in the end of man The end of man Lower your children to the earth ♪ We mourn as we lower our children into the earth To the poisoned earth (to the poisoned earth)