Then We Wake Up Lyrics

Walking home from work one day I felt another air

Something different, something wrong

On the news today, a bomb, ten people dead

Didn ́t know I cared, it was so far

Was it the gasoline from those brown army trucks

Or those giant ships in the harbor

Or maybe the constant scares that the radio belches out

One more gas attack downtown

Will I ever see the girl I passed in the street

Her almond-eyes so clear, so deep

Will we see the birth of our children ́s laughter

Will we wake up to our future mistakes

Will this world ever matter as the blood is spilled in the sand

Will we hear the past scream in our face

Will we breathe again

I turned my gaze to the clouded sky

Roaring thunder above

All day long your hear the fire of the fighters engines

All around you see families in full packed cars

Food in cans, gasmasks and water

Sometimes it seems that all that's left is the alcohols forgetful embrace

Just to forget this day

Will we see the birth of our children ́s laughter

I walk through the ruins

I sense the smell of hate

The smoking piles of our homes

Which once held so much love

The burning carcass of a car

The moaning of a dog

Beneath the charcoal trees

The dried up fields

The famine in the streets

The holy greed

The path we took

The path of fools

Now we reap what we ́ve sown

Now we finally feel old

We ́ve learned the lessons well

What lies ahead none can tell

What the break of dawn will bring

Even more hate and we ́ll sing

We sing our hearts to it as before

Then we wake up and there is nothing more