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So this is who we are

Forced to want to watch the sorrow

The short leash and the led

The suicide, the addict, the voyeur, the dead

Are you comfortable? Did you do enough of nothing?

Hand to hardened lungs and barely breathing

So tell yourself there's peace on Earth and sing us all to sleep

And now you shake your fist, and spit and curse the question:

Why tell these bloody hands to waste their hate on this beautiful life?

So tell yourself there's peace on Earth

The words that cost a weeping's worth

I hear the echoes in the dirt

When silence took the loudest first

God forgive us

Peace on Earth

No, I can't watch anymore

Close your eyes, love, and wait 'til we learn from war

'Til echoes for the deaf are all that's left

So give me peace or give me

Your futile reckoning, little dreams for little men

Truth, a patient weapon, waits to sting the spiteful again

So tell yourself there's peace on Earth

The words that cost a weeping's worth

I hear the echoes in the dirt

When silence took the loudest first

Please forgive me

I want it, and I deserve it

The fractured and the frail lie below to feed it

I want it, and I believe it

Reflections of myself, the crime, the crowd, the creedless

I want it, and I deserve it

The fractured and the frail lie below to feed it

I want it, I want the world I know

Close your eyes

No, I can't watch anymore

Close your eyes

I made mountains, I shook the earth

The flood, the voice, the blood, what the peace was worth

Oh, let me drift from the shore

I want it

I want it

I want it

On the road to ruin, and we're still walking with stones to weigh us down

But hey, I'm still breathing

On the road to ruin, as long as you're with me, I'll be singing

I breathe, and the world breathes with me

I breathe, and the world breathes with me

I breathe, and the world breathes with me

I breathe, and the world breathes with me

The world breathes with me

The world is in me

The world breathes with me