Anger and Apathy

Anger and Apathy - As I Lay Dying

I've tried to find reconciliation

Behind the walls of those

Whose hatred burns

For I find it easier to reach

Someone who still feels

Than to make amends

With passionless apathy

Where all lines are the same a portrait

Cannot be made

I need to burn inside

I need to know that you are alive

I need to know that feelings

Of discontent are stronger

Than indifference for

Those too weak to stand

Like a colorless sky over

A sea of nothingness

Hatred faces its enemies

While apathy strikes furtively

I need to burn inside

I need to know that you are alive

I need to know that feelings of

Discontent are stronger

Than indifference for those too weak to stand

I need to know that feelings

Of discontent are stronger

Than indifference for

Those too weak to stand

Until our anger burns against injustice

We will create

The faceless by dismissing

Those forced to concede

Many of us have turned off the light outside

Erasing what exists beyond our front door

And for you I find

It harder to reach common ground

Than my most glaring opposition

But what about those

Who've lost the luxury of choice

Striving for identity

Buried by our lack of interest

Souls marked as mere history

How much grievance will

It take to awaken us

I need to know that feelings

Of discontent are stronger

Than indifference for

Those too weak to stand

I need to know that feelings

Of discontent are stronger

Than indifference for

Those too weak to stand

How much grievance will

It take to awaken us

From the comfort of our homes

The comfort of our oversized graves

I've tried to find reconciliation

I've tried to find reconciliation