We built huge temples to keep our fear out the door,
The dark is crawling near the walls drawing shadows to hide...
We filled our most precious books with interdictions and laws
And promised ourselves a fabulous life on the other side...
We made up habits and rites, we often knelt and prayed, polite,
To the air around, the walls, the ground, to be heaven-insured...
We hope we"ll pass the fear we've lived with all these years,
Singing some dull, absurdly long chorale, hoping there is a cure...
What if there"s nothing more?
What if this is all we've got
And we"re wasting our precious time preparing for nothing?
Are we really so afraid?
Do we need all this masquerade?
We have to face the fact that we don"t know anything...
We managed to kill our brothers for they had other beliefs,
We completely forgot where we all came from
And now we think we"re different!
We burned the curious at the stake,
We condemned the devil and the snake
For our weakness when we broke the rules
We made up ourselves...
The dark is crawling near the walls drawing shadows to hide...
We filled our most precious books with interdictions and laws
And promised ourselves a fabulous life on the other side...
We made up habits and rites, we often knelt and prayed, polite,
To the air around, the walls, the ground, to be heaven-insured...
We hope we"ll pass the fear we've lived with all these years,
Singing some dull, absurdly long chorale, hoping there is a cure...
What if there"s nothing more?
What if this is all we've got
And we"re wasting our precious time preparing for nothing?
Are we really so afraid?
Do we need all this masquerade?
We have to face the fact that we don"t know anything...
We managed to kill our brothers for they had other beliefs,
We completely forgot where we all came from
And now we think we"re different!
We burned the curious at the stake,
We condemned the devil and the snake
For our weakness when we broke the rules
We made up ourselves...