↻𐑣𐑪𐑤𐑩𐑒𐑷𐑕𐑑 [0]

[Intro] Reality has come over me as I slip away from myself. The people I know can’t tell the truth, And I don’t think I even care. I can see the face of a thousand people passing by on a train. The silence of a world as they pass on by still resounds in my brain. [Chorus] Shed a tear (shed a tear) for all the earth (for all the earth), For she has closed her eyes to all the pain! What will you do when it comes to you? Will you run or will you hide? I can hear the screaming– [Verse 1] Lambs to the slaughter, they open not their mouth. A sacrifice displeasing to their God (The innocent must die). Smoke is rising from eternal fire. The one we would expect Would be there to protect Now breaks his vow and deals the fatal blow. [Chorus] Shed a tear (shed a tear) for all the earth (for all the earth), For she has closed her eyes to all the pain! What will you do when it comes to you? Will you run or will you hide? I can hear the screaming– [Verse 2] I was dumb when they took my neighbor (I hear those footsteps getting closer), Held my tongue when they took my friend (Oh, my heart, no need to be afraid). I was still when they took my brother (They’ll never take me). Who will speak up for me? [Bridge] The sacred dream is ended in the silent scream! The breath of life is stifled by the surgeon’s knife! [Outro] A holocaust inevitably comes To those who place themselves too high, To those who teach themselves the lie That life and death is in their hand– Mere men! Too small to understand The truth, the value of one soul. And so their wisdom takes its toll In infants shattered on the rock– Such pain! And yet it does not shock Our hardened hearts, our souls of ash– We throw their bodies in the trash And tell ourselves, it’s for the best. And that is how we treat the rest– The useless crippled, and the old. With every death our heart grows cold ‘Til someone puts us in our tomb. The gift of God comes in a maiden’s womb.