Better Days

We're closer to the future
I can see the path we're on
We are not kings controlling castles
We're a sorry line of pawns
I feel the stinging retribution
Of short-sighted legacy
If we don't change it fast
And make it last
We may just cease to be

Cowering in our hovels
Staring at our t.v. Sets
We do not mourn our lost humanity
How soon we do forget
We celebrate our situation
Making lethargy our creed
Sing complacency as anthem
We forget the things we need

And it's always just a dream, living in better days
No it's not always as it seems, living in better days

Are you feeling it come over?
Well I've got a bit to say about that
There's an angriness I know
Why can't they look at their ways?
Where the light seems to nearly all but fade

Search the skies for some redemption
But it never seems to come
We could stare up there forever
But we'd only see the sun
There's no benevolent messiah
Coming to deliver us
We must believe ourselves
Invent ourselves
Or wither into dust

Think of what a God would want
Who could create all this
Would he want us to surpass him
Or force us merely to exist?
I can't conceive our evolution
Culminating into faith
Where we can buy our absolution
At some ritual debate

And it's always just a dream, living in better days
No it's not always as it seems, living in better days
Are you feeling it come over?
You know I've got a thing to say about that
It's much easier to cover
They won't come walkin my way
Believing in everything they held
If I could just slowly change the way you are
And stare back at the shimmering blade

Each of us know well the consequence of decisions
I'm not a prophet, I just walk to the beat of a different drum

I only say with the light of promise overhead
With secular help I know, we may just find our way
We forget to seize the moment then
We (can) only hope to change the way you are
Then you have only you to blame

We may just find better days