Fourteen billion years, and we’re here.
United, divided by fear
From the Big Bang to when the shock came so near,
we had lost all that had cost us so dear
Tell my mother I’m just another foolish boy
and my father, don’t even bother, he’s overjoyed
to send his only son straight into war
where men are killing men and nothing more
I’m a soldier but not much older than a kid
They have thrown me into a conflict I cannot rid
I’ll stare into the night until I’m blind
and hope for the madness to unwind
Politicians (you’re) just morticians without a goal
Your eyes are twinkling, but there’s no inkling of a soul
And the freedom that’s a-bleedin’ from your pride
is the freedom that we’re leaving all behind
Raise your glasses to the masses in their grave
that evolution’s revolution could not save
In the twilight of the starlight, a new attack
Push the button, until there’s nothing but a flag
I am holding onto letters from my love
as the bomb fragments shatter up above
Into another world i soon fade
To join the many others where they’re laid
Fourteen billion years, and we’re here
but nowhere in particular we are near