Amplification Lyrics

I was listening for echoes

In the drumbeat of a firefight

Asking how we became inhumane

The elemental story

That resonates through history

Is that humans have always been the same

Oh no! We know, we've improved our power to amplify

Oh no! We know, we will use that power to kill and die

I was watching the light beams

As they flashed across the TV screens

Thinking that our World had gone insane

Memories of my teenage years

Of conflict zones and children's tears

Depressed that this was happening again

Oh no! We know, we've improved our power to amplify

Oh no! We know, we will use that power to kill and die

In the voice of propaganda

There's a rhetoric of failure

The distorting of the stories, no surprise

But project to global media

All those different images

Impossible to tell the truth from lies

Oh no! We know, we've improved our power to amplify

Oh no! We know, we will use that power to kill and die

I was listening for echoes

In the silence of a genocide

The footsteps of the fast approaching men

The elemental story

A rhythm of humanity

Peace won by the missiles that we send

Oh no! We know, we've improved our power to amplify

Oh no! We know, we will use that power to kill and die