Blind Eye To A Burning House Lyrics

What would it take to shake you, wake you from this dream

To make you stumble to your feet to face the light, to feel the heat

Cause you have slept, though prophets preach and sirens scream

To break your placid vista's silence, a palisade of passive violence

And if I can't get through to you, I fear what that could mean

So shed your signal-jamming, Goddamned vanity

We're spinning out towards calamity

The hourglass is running out

Against complacency and doubt

Infernos close that must be doused

Don't turn a blind eye to this burning house

The time is now, the time is now

No circumventing this, you can't just walk away

The blood of generations stains you, and testifies of all you feign to be

And bites the corner of your conscience just to see if you can feel

And holds you up against the glow to find out if you're real

Or are you numb, a native son of this creeping hell

An heir apparent set to watch the ashes fall

It's time to show us all

The hourglass is running out

Against complacency and doubt

Infernos close that must be doused

Don't turn a blind eye to this burning house

The time is now, the time is now

It's not a question of your understanding only, but your empathy

A test, a trial on display under the guiding eye of history

This is the moment you make clear the scope and depth of your ability

To meet the measure of your moment, to keep the promise of your destiny

The hourglass is running out

Against complacency and doubt

Infernos close that must be doused

Don't turn a blind eye to this burning house

The time is now, the time is now