Story Behind The Song
Destruction of Mother Earth
| Song Length |
5:28 |
Genre |
Pop - Europop, Pop - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Troubled, Moving |
Subject |
Earth |
| Similar Artists |
Peter Gabriel |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Day breaks and is trapped again
In a concrete sky
All this endless brick and glass
Grows for miles and miles
When the smoke clears, where the air is burned
There's a scorch like desert sun
It's the choking of the infinite
And it's suffocating all
In this endless rush of entitlement
Did we invent our own destruction?
If we can't turn around this maddened pace
There'll be only echoes
When the flood comes and you have no home
Paradise becomes the grave
There'll be no shores to swim to and
No one left to save
In this endless rush of entitlement
Did we invent our own destruction?
If we can't turn around this maddened pace
There'll be only echoes of Eden
The true crime is indifference now
Even though the road is paved with good intentions
But within these hands
Within these prayers
We believe
It's ours all along
In this endless rush of entitlement
Did we invent our own destruction?
If we can't turn around this maddened pace
There'll be no more
In this endless rush of entitlement
Did we invent our own destruction?
If we can't slow down this manic pace
There'll be only echoes...