Pain of Salvation - Inside Out lyrics

"30 years ago, society believed that
No price was to high
We thought that industry could come
At any cost we
Cannot afford to pay that price any more"

So finally my journey ends
And through this wound my soul can mend
Guilt is my blood i'm being drained
This is my home, I will stay inside
There's always someone inside
Fighting to get outside
The knowing-right-from-wrong side
Our home is inside

I've travelled the world around
In search for some grail of mine
How could I be so blind?
It was always here, inside
I have only some weeks to give
But at last I live

Life's just a line of situations
A matter of occasions
And mystic correlations
The work of a machine

Here in a world split to nations
We fail to see the relations
Between the wheel and the machine
And of the scars we're leaving inside
I swear there's someone inside
Fighting to get outside
Just give it all an hour
By the concrete lake

The higher I am reaching
The closer to the sun
The more I learn, the less I know for sure
For each machine I'm leaving
I find a bigger one
For each step I turn wiser than before
But, it's burning me

"I dread the day my children
Will ask me why i
Dread the day when I will have to explain
To them that people thought it
Was acceptable to destroy
The environment so that we could have jobs i
Dread the day I will have to
Explain to my bright-eyed Joshua
Who talks to dogs and listens to
The grass screaming
That we were all to busy driving
Fast cars, rushing our children
Off to day-care
And finding seniors' homes to
Our grandparents and
Listening to the ringing of cash registers

We were all too busy to
Hear the grass screaming"