Behold a Pale Horse - Let It Burn Lyrics

Can't you see?
Our hands are tired
We try to sleep
But our eyes still see
Pull the strings
As our world turns crazy
Flee the ship as our bridges burn

Oh they burn, they burn, they burn
They burn with each turn
Oh they burn, they burn, they burn
They burn with each turn
Oh its hard getting on

Everyones shouting out
Everyone's standing on shoulders
Everyones shouting out
To closed doors with cannon balls
Look out the window
Wiping all that steam
Watch it as it drops now
As it soaks it turns and churns
We learn but we burn

In my darkest thoughts we're too far gone
And it's hard to keep on keeping on
Y'knaa, when i was young my faith was strong
But these days i feel i don't belong
I don't belong on this ship that's sinking
This ship that stinks of blinkered thinking
I gots the fear, mixed with frustration
At this insular empire-island nation
Where the ones to blame point us elsewhere
Call us 'snowflakes' if we dare to care
Should we not care and just let it burn?
All that history, what they learned?
Learn to be scared of far-away places
Fear breeds hate and hate breeds racists
Judge them by the skin-tone on their faces
And i think what made them act this way?
And i look at the papers they read each day
Talk of rivers of blood and gathering thunder
And how our country's been torn asunder
And really, is it any wonder
They woke like jackals from their slumber?
In my darkest thoughts we're too far gone
But we've got to keep on keeping on
Keep on singing these rebel songs
Keep on saying: this is wrong