The World As We Know It

Album: The City Sleeps in Flames (2005)
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  • Time is becoming
    More precious than gold
    All those times wasted alone
    Starving children the poison waters

    And the suffocating skies
    We won't get another chance this time
    We won't get a second chance this time

    You'll be lucky if you make it out alive
    Haven't we lost our minds?
    What the hell were we all thinking?
    Now they're choosing sides

    This is the world
    This is the world

    A virus known as rage
    Is brutally destroying
    And spreading all over the place
    A bleeding culture
    A dying nation

    When the money controls the tide
    We won't get another chance this time
    We won't get a second chance this time

    You'll be lucky if you make it out alive
    Haven't we lost our minds?
    What the hell were we all thinking?
    Now they're choosing sides
    Well this is the world as we know it
    Have we lost our minds?

    The tension is rising and rising
    And the world is at stake
    Take back what belongs to you, by God
    Before it's to late
    TAKE IT BACK!
    TAKE IT BACK!
    TAKE IT BACK!

    So close your eyes
    And paint the picture
    The sunset starring back
    Won't last forever, forever
    Just close your eyes

    And paint the picture
    'Cause the world we could've had
    Would have been better, much better
    Just close your eyes

    And paint the picture
    'Cause the sunset starring back
    Won't last forever, forever Writer/s: BRIAN MCTERNAN, CHAD LANE CRAWFORD, DAVID JOHN WILSON, PETER ALLEN COSTA, POUYAN SEAN AFKARY, STEPHEN CHRISTOPHER KIRBY, TYSON CURTIS STEVENS
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Waterloobullet from Las Vegas, NvThis song is about war on the country.How it is to be stuck in the middle of it.How it is to be one fighting in it.
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