Sticks And Stones (Album Version) Lyrics

A time of peace

Between the West and the East

Was merely a pipe dream

From hand in hand

To shells in sand

Nothing was what it seemed

A need to appease

Their selfish greed

Retired their sense of sympathy

From green leaves and blue seas

To expired wastelands and dead trees

The tensions are rising

Powers will clash

Expendable lives

For dependable cash

From sticks and stones

To war unknown

We'll all be forced to atone

From the powers that be

In their hands our destiny

Without a world to call home

From Adam and Eve

Split atoms and grief

The time of sanctuary, deceased

Our means surpassed

We've come in last

With lives paid by the lower class

A war for oil

A battle for influence

All will toil

For lack of due diligence

Immobilize, destabilize

Economies will fall

Capsized, and brutalized

Just killers at the call

The tensions are rising

Powers will clash

Expendable lives

For dependable cash

From sticks and stones

To war unknown

We'll all be forced to atone

From the powers that be

In their hands our destiny

Without a world to call home

From Adam and Eve

Split atoms and grief

The time of sanctuary, deceased

Our means surpassed

We've come in last

With lives paid by the lower class

This isn't what we wanted

We just wanted to be free

We're the ones that pay the price

When our leaders can't agree

The clock is ticking

Mere seconds to midnight

The ice is melting

So hold your loved ones tight

From sticks and stones

To war unknown

We'll all be forced to atone

From the powers that be

In their hands our destiny

Without a world to call home

From Adam and Eve

Split atoms and grief

The time of sanctuary, deceased

Our means surpassed

We've come in last

With lives paid by the lower class