The World Breathes With Me

So this is who we are
Forced to want to watch the sorrow
The short leash and the led
The suicide, the addict, the voyeur, the dead

Are you comfortable? Did you do enough of nothing?
Hand to hardened lungs and barely breathing
So tell yourself there's peace on earth and sing us all to sleep
And now you shake your fist, and spit and curse the question
Why tell these bloody hands to waste their hate on this beautiful life?

So tell yourself there's peace on earth
The words that cost a weeping's worth
I hear the echoes in the dirt
When silence took the loudest first
God forgive us
Peace on earth

No, I can't watch anymore
Close your eyes, love, and wait till we learn from war
Till echoes for the deaf are all that's left
So give me peace or give me
Your futile reckoning, little dreams for little men
Truth, a patient weapon, waits to sting the spiteful again

So tell yourself there's peace on earth
The words that cost a weeping's worth
I hear the echoes in the dirt
When silence took the loudest first
Please forgive me

I want it, and I deserve it
The fractured and the frail lie below to feed it
I want it, and I believe it
Reflections of myself, the crime, the crowd, the creedless
I want it, and I deserve it
The fractured and the frail lie below to feed it
I want it, I want the world I know

Close your eyes
No, I can't watch anymore
Close your eyes
I made mountains, I shook the earth
The flood, the voice, the blood, what the peace was worth
Oh, let me drift from the shore

I want it
I want it
I want it

On the road to ruin, and we're still walking with stones to weigh us down
But hey, I'm still breathing
On the road to ruin, as long as you're with me, I'll be singing

I breathe, and the world breathes with me
I breathe, and the world breathes with me
I breathe, and the world breathes with me
I breathe, and the world breathes with me
The world breathes with me

The world is in me

The world breathes with me