Could Be Better (Probably Be Worse) Lyrics

Stare into the abyss

Listen to your reflection

Whisper floats from the mist

It can still turn out better

Thunderheads dissipating

Sun caresses the scarred land

Ground swells with the new saplings

Earth resplendent and verdant

But smoke hangs on the horizon

It takes the shape of a skull

The land is thoroughly poisoned

Sulfur seeps from bellow

Massive rumbling threshers

Cut down all forms of life

And yet there still perseveres

A faint, dim, flickering light

They lead a meager existence

Scavenging to survive

But they hold onto the promise

Of hope they still keep alive

But what of those in the cities

Forced to hustle for scraps

Upholding a class of leeches

Who drain them til they collapse

Well despite declarations of victory

It's just pride before the fall

When the dispossessed are united

Rise up and kill them all

There is always silver in the clouds

No matter how black and dark

All it needs is light to shine on it

Whether from fire or a spark

History is not foretold, nor dead

It is still ours to reclaim

But we will not go unopposed

Unhurt, un-martyred

Without pain

Hold on

The owning class will never stop

Until they've squeezed the last drop

Do not let them kill us all