Desolate Isle

Desolate Isle - Attalus

Where is the peace that they promised we'd find

Peace for our cities our children our minds

We are desperate

And lost on the winds of ideals that keep changing their course

Utopian dreamers only bring us new wars

We are desolate

At another dead end

So why does the tide always brings us to this

If heaven is real why's it easy to miss

I want life but I'm content to exist without knowing my purpose

Where are the prophets the priests and the kings

Who looked beyond nature for the nature of things

They've been ignored

And called primitive men cause their theories weren't fully evolved

They believed mysteries that science can't solve

But I'm unsure we're wiser than them

We look at the world through a narrower lens

We follow our reason and stop where she ends

We put faith in our senses and forsake common sense

It's disorder

But we call it a new world order

Are we so righteous that we can make all the wrongs right

Are we so enlightened that we can turn darkness to light

No

We're just the cynics proclaiming the flaws

We aim our polemic at political laws

We're fighting the symptoms because we can't see our greed is the cause

We can't see our greed is the cause

We stand as judges when we should be standing on trial

We're the ones who make this world a desolate isle

We're the problem every father every mother every child

But the truth is we've grown to love the exile

On this rock we've taken our stand

Joined by the leagues of men now buried in sand

Babylon we'll build her again

The great city of man

This time we're sure she will stand

But on this rock the castles will fall

We can't keep the waves of time from breeching the walls

Every man the great and the small

When the tide overtakes us justice will take us all

Are we so righteous that we can make all the wrongs right

Are we so enlightened that we can turn darkness to light

Are we so righteous that grace doesn't have any worth

Are we so enlightened that we can build heaven on earth

No

Are we so righteous that grace no have any worth

Are we so enlightened that we can build heaven on earth

Are we so righteous that we can make all the wrongs right

Are we so enlightened that we can turn darkness to light

Are we can feel stay we can say all saw