Album: Wrath (2009)

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• Humanity's a failed experiment
  Walking the path to extinction
  Spinning its wheels endlessly
  Grease them with oil and uranium
  The earth will shake
  And the waters will rise
  The elements reclaim what was taken
  
  The skyline is set ablaze with regret
  Ashes cover a falling silhouette
  The city will reap what it's sown and ignite
  Watching as the city burns tonight
  
  Blindly consuming mass manufactured faith
  Mankind is a festering parasite
  Relentlessly draining its host dry
  Nailing belief to a cross of genocide
  The elements reclaim what was taken
  
  The skyline is set ablaze with regret
  Ashes cover a falling silhouette
  The city will reap what it's sown and ignite
  Watching as the city burns tonight
  
  Only after the last tree's cut
  And the last river poisoned
  Only after the last fish is caught
  Will you find that money cannot be eaten
  
  And everything becomes irrelevant
  As the sky tears open
  Fire rains down,
  The fourth world comes to an end
  Push the button light the match,
  Feel the fault lines detach
  Crosshairs in the evening light
  I sit and watch the city burn tonight
  
  The city burns tonight Writer/s: CHRIS ADLER, DAVID RANDALL BLYTHE, JOHN CAMPBELL, MARK MORTON, WILL ADLER
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• Igor from RomaniaIs it a coincidence or not that this song is written in 2009, pretty close to the Great Recession?
  
  I was watching a clip about the shortcomings of capitalism and how the Governments basically had to make up for the banks' mistakes or otherwise the whole economic system would've collapsed and that's how we were affected as humans. The clip was also talking about the fact that infinite economic growth isn't sustainable so there was something that immediately clicked in my brain about this song. I looked it up and here it is... 2009.
• Mike from Denver, Cothis song pulls you into its mass mayhem of brutal riffs, pounding drums, thundering bass, growling vocals, and that 100 per-cent LAMB OF GOD AWESOMENESS!!!! LAMB OF GOD IS THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD!!!!!
• Nick from Cairns, AustraliaYea weird cause i saw websites and on the band's website i think that the album was gonna come out feb 24th, 2009 but i found it in the shelves of one of our music stores in Cairns a week before i "thought" it was gonna be released. Of course i bought it but its just weird, maybe's its just me
• Nick from Cairns, AustraliaDamn I was gonna put that rolling stone comment up lol, ya beat me to it!! I'm not being annoyin its just that I saw it on another website and thought i'd put it up there but oh well.......Anyway, great song i love that intro it sounds really sinister in a way

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