Unto Ourselves

You credit your merit on faith, a holy disgrace, oh my Lord
You’re living on sticks, yet the shape it still fits the hole you made for it
I’m not here to explain to you the way that we’re made
I’m just trying to tell you there’s gotta be a way
To live together, our lives at the stake
Connect at the seam like some outboard dream
In a circuit of people and wires and steam
You’re so callous and cold, morose and controlling
Let the man speak his vow 'fore he turns red and bows out
He carefully flies through the starless night sky
Red rubies in his eyes, red rubies are his eyes
If you let the water flow, you’ll run down to the river of roses
Toes barely touching the surface
You’ll sink like stones from a castle windblown some time ago
I’ve got a fear that we’ll all disappear
By our own hands and feelings we can never quite clear
When the trees are all gone and the rivers have run
When the ghosts have moved on and the rats tread along
The roads that we paved and the land that we shunned
And the oceans polluted with barrels and drums
The icecaps are melted like tears from some sun
Or a star or a moon or a planet undone
Ripped apart by some bastards who thought it’d still function
Without love or a care, not one decent notion
I’m one of those people and so are you
I’m one of those devils and so are you
And you, and you, and you, and you