Standing with bare backs against structures built strongly of good faith Add lies Subtract some care Obligation becomes optional and they collapse Its all that we thought and theres nothing here Stand up and listen to the sounds The bullets scream the children drop in silence face-first to the ground Theres no one to care No one to see an end Jet planes explode midair and our dreams fill the cabin Not fast enough to adapt to all the changes Still not strong enough to accept the status quo The salted knife is inside turning slow But this is all that we know Cut a branch off my family tree It made sense to me Until now Soon well try Because its worth a try And then well take what was ours to begin with Right now its hard to breathe but well survive Forget the third world Forget disease Reveal scars Stab me with a scimitar Look around normal faces hide worse problems in our backyard Dont hide the scars, stand up and listen to the sounds Bullets screaming Children dropping No one watching as they nail the ground