The Grim Lesson (Evolution Demise) Lyrics

As I open my eyes

Oh, give me the heart

To face the grim truth I can’t deny

The greenlands are now bare

The spring of life has dried

The Mother holding her dying child

What has been left behind

Of towers rising high

And while we thought we had

The brightest of all minds

What have we done

The will to hold the reins

Born from the wish for life

A fever, devouring all we had

Unfit to win the fight

We were our own demise

But in this madness what have you gained

Demolished your home for a jail

Was this the unavoidable fate

For power in the hands of apes

Oh, in this madness what have you gained

The illusionary throne you built

Fallen, scattered ruins and tears

Is this mankind

Is this the logic beast

Was this the price for the apple you seized

Was this the wisdom you claimed to seek

Was this the control you claimed to keep

Was this your dream

Silent’s the song of humanity

Nothing more’s beyond

What have you gained

Nothing more beyond

Fallen, scattered ruins, tears

Perish, foolish beast

Where is the awareness, the wonder for it all

Where is the beauty, the poetry

Where is the wisdom you claimed to seek

What of all this

What did you find past the boundary

Was this all enough

Will you ever learn

Where is the balance between you and the world

The one that made you be born and live

How could you lose the survival key

Throw it away

Illusions fade and your towers sink

Where is the awareness, that made you win and grow

Where is the wisdom you claimed to seek

Where is the control you claimed to keep

Burnt by your own flames

But in the aftermath

Of our darkest night

There is no light of a new sun

Beyond the horizon line

We may build a new path

Or just evolve to dust