[Verse 1] We built the engines and we mastered the flame We conquered the earth but we’re playing a game We map out the stars and we measure the stone But we’re frightened to death of the flesh and the bone We still wear the shadows of teeth and of claws We answer the hurt with the jungle’s old laws A genius of matter, a fool in the heart We tear at our brothers and pull them apart [Chorus] Oh, it isn’t the devil, it isn’t the dark It’s just an old instinct, a primitive spark The cause of the evil is a mind that is blind Still dragging the chains of the animal mind We fight fire with fire and watch the world burn But it’s only a lesson we’re trying to learn It’s the sleep of the spirit, the winter of grace We’re an unfinished soul in an unfinished place [Verse 2] We think we must strike or be trampled right down We build up the walls to protect the old town An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth We mistake our survival for ultimate truth We think that the blood is the price of our bread Still bound by the fears of the ancient and dead We master the iron, the steel, and the wood But we don't understand what is truly the good [Chorus] Oh, it isn’t the devil, it isn’t the dark It’s just an old instinct, a primitive spark The cause of the evil is a mind that is blind Still dragging the chains of the animal mind We fight fire with fire and watch the world burn But it’s only a lesson we’re trying to learn It’s the sleep of the spirit, the winter of grace We’re an unfinished soul in an unfinished place [Bridge] You can't murder the hatred, you can't kill the war That’s just feeding the beast that was hungry before The only way out of the cycle of pain Is humaneness falling like summer rain They know not what they do, so let the sword drop Forgive and the spinning will finally stop [Chorus] Oh, it isn’t the devil, it isn’t the dark It’s just an old instinct, a primitive spark The cause of the evil is a mind that is blind Still dragging the chains of the animal mind We fight fire with fire and watch the world burn But it’s only a lesson we’re trying to learn It’s the sleep of the spirit, the winter of grace We’re an unfinished soul in an unfinished place [Outro] Wake up from the jungle, wake up from the night Let the intellect marry the heart and the light The cause of the evil is waiting to fade In the warmth of the peace that the human has made
