THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH They told us to kneel They told us be still Swallow the anger And bend to their will They told us be gentle They told us be kind While wolves took the harvest And fed on the blind But I have watched kingdoms Rise out of blood I have watched the innocent Drown in the flood And somewhere beneath us The old promise sleeps A crown for the humble A grave for the weak THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH That is what they told us That is what they preached THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH When the towers fall And the powerful are weak But who inherits ashes? Who inherits stone? Who inherits kingdoms When the kings are gone? The poor will inherit The ruins and dust The names of the fallen The weapons of rust The saints will be silent The sinners will pray The graves will remember What men threw away I carried your mercy Like a chain around my throat I carried your promise Like a sinking boat You told me forgiveness Would make me free But forgiveness means nothing To those who hunt me THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH So let the earth tremble Let the old walls break THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH If there is a kingdom Let it rise from the wreck No throne lasts forever No empire survives The hands that hold power Are still human inside The hammer will crumble The crown will decay The strongest of tyrants Will kneel one day And when all their monuments Fall into sand The meak will be standing With earth in their hands Not as conquerors Not as kings But as survivors Of terrible things THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH When the final bells are ringing When the heavens disappear THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH Not because they were the strongest But because they remained here So bury the weapons And bury the lies Bury the fathers Who taught sons to die Let mercy be stronger Than hatred and fear Let the forgotten Finally appear And if there is justice Beyond what we know Let it belong to the ones Who had nowhere to go THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH Write it into stone Write it into bone THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH When every mighty kingdom Finally stands alone And when the last conqueror Lies beneath the ground And nothing but silence Is left of the sound The earth will remember The gentle and small The ones who kept breathing The ones who stood tall THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH Not tomorrow Not today But when all the crowns are dust And all the wolves have gone away THE MEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH And perhaps when it is ours We will finally learn That the earth was never meant To belong to anyone
