Ruins Lyrics

We're older...
We're elders of all those to come,
From fathers to sons to new fathers...
To teach them the future by seeing the past of all those before us,
We raise them...
We raise them what we saw, we must fear it,
Cause we have been drawing their future,
We need to fear all we teach them,
Or they all fall down...

I'm an outcome...
Of the fears of the fathers before me,
Subjective the truth that we stand for...
These cultural matters we die for...
With hope I pray, that I can make a difference in this dark world,
To make up the hurts that I spread once,
To end with my crosses forgiven...
In my children's arms...

And I feel time is not on our side now,
Yet all those I wish for are with me...
Afraid I'll be a thought left forgotten,
Removed from the hearts of my loved ones...
I live in submission...
Of the fear to leave my children,
Left to be forgotten...
I don't want to die!...

An outcome...
Of fears of the fathers we are now,
Subjective, the truth that we fought for,
Man made, the truth that we've killed for...
In silence I dream that we did make a difference for the new world,
To make up the hurts that we spread once...
To end with our crosses forgiven, in our children's arms...
When silenced, we left them only ruins,
We left them a past without answers...
We were the lessons the never learned...

We may all fall down...