Song Description

How do you reconcile the realities of life with the traditional concepts of God?

Lyrics

Dawn
The sun peels back the night sky
Revealing another day in paradox
And the 10 or 12 rich old men who run the world
Look down from their penthouse windows and say "It is good"

Junkies and hookers, living on Sunset and Vine
They were all children once upon a time
I must be stupid, it makes no sense to me
I'm watching justice bound and gagged on live TV

I pray to God there's a heaven
Something to hope for
I pray to heaven that there's a God
I really want to believe

Silence
Broken by the sound of innocence
Shattering into 6 million pieces
And the four horsemen of the total eclipse
Dismount to steal jewelry off the dead
And smoke their unfiltered cigarettes

Looking for mercy, looking for love as well
Looking for heaven on the other side of hell
I must be stupid, it's Aramaic to me
"Eloi, eloi, lama sabachtani"

I really want to believe just like a little child
And turn off my mind for awhile
Problem is I think too much, too much
I think I think too much…too much thinking
About disasters, about the sins of man
About another baby found in a garbage can
I must be stupid, no matter what I say
I can't explain it, explain the pain away

Wanna believe, wanna believe
Want to believe in a purpose
Make sense out of the madness
Wanna know before I die Is there more than just an
empty sky...

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