Verse 1) The air is thick, a silent hum On the edge of what's to come Headlines scream in black and white Another shadow in the fading light Politicians shake a heavy hand While drawing lines across the sand The engines roar, a metal creed Fueling a destructive need (Chorus) And we're standing on the precipice now Forgetting every single vow What happened to the peace and love? The fist just fits inside the glove They're rushing for the bigger guns And there's nowhere left for us to run It's gone too far to turn off the key A tidal wave for all to see (Verse 2) We watch the screens in disbelief A shared and hollow, silent grief Whispers turn to worried shouts Swallowed by the rising doubts Every channel, every feed Shows the harvest of a bitter seed And we all feel the coming cost Of every single lesson lost (Chorus) And we're standing on the precipice now Forgetting every single vow What happened to the peace and love? The fist just fits inside the glove They're rushing for the bigger guns And there's nowhere left for us to run It's gone too far to turn off the key A tidal wave for all to see (Verse 3) The old men talk of yesterday The way things were before the gray Crept in the sky and stole the blue When we all thought we knew what's true Now children draw in shades of rust Their playgrounds turning into dust A lullaby becomes the drone Of something cold and made of stone (Bridge) So what's the next line in this play? As all the blue skies turn to gray? How does this story finally end? Is there any message left to send? Or do we just hold our breath and wait To see the turning of our fate? (Chorus) And we're standing on the precipice now Forgetting every single vow What happened to the peace and love? The fist just fits inside the glove They're rushing for the bigger guns And there's nowhere left for us to run It's gone too far to turn off the key A tidal wave for all to see (Outro) Just the bigger guns... Nowhere left to run... Nowhere left to run... Is it so fucked that... The bigger guns have won.
