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And in our ignorance we let them take control And in their wisdom they decreed that we should bow Their grips extending to encompass all the world The
Well we've all heard the sermon seen The preachers or worshipped the stage Heard the new manifesto? It's all questions no solutions at all Well, you're
You're standing on a hill, looking down at the city Thinking 'bout your life and your bottle of pills They released you from the hospital, you're cured
Meatwagon come, borne on the rays of the morning sun Thy kingdom come, thy will be done A silver express through the valley of death A cruise over land
What will you do when your properties gone? When the finger on the triggers your one and only son? When the money in your pocket cannot buy even bread
Rise into the light And set a flame to the night We must destroy the institution of fear Every shadow of doubt Grind it out There is a vision now becoming
The cold outside lays waste to life. Suspends the process of decay. Alone without a friend suffer as night becomes the death of day. [CHORUS:] Winter
Took me some time to understand the man He is a fist in the back of my brain Don't you know we're doing all that we can The look in his eyes is no look
Out in the marshland and deep in the woods Something stirs from the past to live once again Do you believe that there is life In all that they told us
Rise into the light, and set a flame to the night We must destroy the institution of fear Every shadow of doubt, grind it out! There is a vision now
Well we?ve all heard the sermon seen The preachers or worshipped the stage Heard the new manifesto? It?s all questions no solutions at all Well, you
Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die It's better to laugh than it is to cry My cup runneth over with blood and not wine The last was the flood,
The wind of change transformed the plains into the desert And on the lower levels demons scream delight Places of worship have ceased to serve the purpose
The parchment of my flesh must break The winter winds my soul doth take And all beneath the heavens lies in peace A world will form and fade away The