Avenged Sevenfold - Exist lyrics
[Avenged Sevenfold - Exist lyrics]
Our truth is painted across the sky
In our reflection we learn to fly
No hand to hold us
No one to save us from tomorrow
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
No light to follow a shot in the dark
Does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens i can't see the pain
Does anybody care?
Think for a moment of all the lives
Stripped of their essence before their time
We stand to conquer
But is there nothing left tomorrow?
I'm sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
There's no light to follow
A shot in the dark does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens i can't see the pain
Does anybody care?
"We have one collective hope:
The Earth and yet
Uncounted people remain hopeless
Famine and calamity abound
Sufferers hurl themselves into the
Arms of war
People kill and get killed in the name
Of someone else’s concept of God
Do we admit that our thoughts
And behaviors spring from
A belief that the world revolves around us?
Each fabricated conflict
Self-murdering bomb, vanished airplane
Every fictionalized dictator, biased
Or partisan, and wayward son
Are part of the curtains of
Society’s racial, ethnic, religious
National and cultural conflicts
And you find the human ego turning
The knobs and pulling the levers
When I track the orbit's of asteroids
Comets and planets
Each one a pirouetting dancer
In a cosmic ballet
Choreographed by the forces of gravity
I see beyond the plight of humans
I see a Universe ever-expanding
With it's galaxies embedded
Within the ever-stretching
Four-dimensional fabric of space and time
However big our world is, our hearts
Our minds, our outsize atlases
The universe is even bigger
There are more stars in the Universe than
Grains of sand on the world’s beaches
More stars in the Universe than seconds of
Time that have passed since Earth formed
More stars than words and sounds ever uttered
By all humans who have ever lived
The day we cease the exploration
Of the cosmos is the day we threaten the
Continuing of our species
In that bleak world, arms-bearing
Resource hungry people and nations
Would be prone to act
On their low-contracted prejudices
And would have seen the last
Gasp of human enlightenment
Until the rise of a visionary new
Culture that once again embraces the
Cosmic perspective: a perspective in which we
Are one, fitting neither above
Nor below but within"
In our reflection we learn to fly
No hand to hold us
No one to save us from tomorrow
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
No light to follow a shot in the dark
Does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens i can't see the pain
Does anybody care?
Think for a moment of all the lives
Stripped of their essence before their time
We stand to conquer
But is there nothing left tomorrow?
I'm sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
There's no light to follow
A shot in the dark does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens i can't see the pain
Does anybody care?
"We have one collective hope:
The Earth and yet
Uncounted people remain hopeless
Famine and calamity abound
Sufferers hurl themselves into the
Arms of war
People kill and get killed in the name
Of someone else’s concept of God
Do we admit that our thoughts
And behaviors spring from
A belief that the world revolves around us?
Each fabricated conflict
Self-murdering bomb, vanished airplane
Every fictionalized dictator, biased
Or partisan, and wayward son
Are part of the curtains of
Society’s racial, ethnic, religious
National and cultural conflicts
And you find the human ego turning
The knobs and pulling the levers
When I track the orbit's of asteroids
Comets and planets
Each one a pirouetting dancer
In a cosmic ballet
Choreographed by the forces of gravity
I see beyond the plight of humans
I see a Universe ever-expanding
With it's galaxies embedded
Within the ever-stretching
Four-dimensional fabric of space and time
However big our world is, our hearts
Our minds, our outsize atlases
The universe is even bigger
There are more stars in the Universe than
Grains of sand on the world’s beaches
More stars in the Universe than seconds of
Time that have passed since Earth formed
More stars than words and sounds ever uttered
By all humans who have ever lived
The day we cease the exploration
Of the cosmos is the day we threaten the
Continuing of our species
In that bleak world, arms-bearing
Resource hungry people and nations
Would be prone to act
On their low-contracted prejudices
And would have seen the last
Gasp of human enlightenment
Until the rise of a visionary new
Culture that once again embraces the
Cosmic perspective: a perspective in which we
Are one, fitting neither above
Nor below but within"