If I could stay mad enough maybe I'd leave But you gotta understand This runs twenty-two years deep Everyone wants it all Everyone needs a place You can destroy or you can create All I know is all that I know And I know we all just beguile the time But it all catches up And it's all so fucked up And only time will tell Oh, how it echoes Oh, when it echoes It hits like a ton of feathers, when it echoes Common ground Can't be found From atop a hill looking down, look around Take me to sleep, c'mon, put me to weep Can't you see that you've given your souls up for keeps? Oh, how it echoes Oh, when it echoes It hits like a ton of feathers, when it echoes Yeah, but it all catches up and it's all so fucked up Take me to sleep, c'mon, put me to weep Can't you see that you've given your souls up for keeps? And only time will tell We send in poor people To fight other poor people We send in our brothers and sisters And daughters and sons There's no difference We send in to kill while we sit on our asses And watch green screens infotain all day long And it hits like a ton of feathers, when it echoes