there's a struggle coming but to conquer first they must divide the machine keeps humming night and day how are we so unaware? why are you not afraid? protests are drumming while you turn your nose and roll your eyes knee-jerk reactions so engrained judging from an armchair there is hate and there is love and there is loss and there is light and there is dark than there is us and whether this world burns is none of your concern caught up in a ticker-tape parade but I have learned to stand up and just to walk away sometimes the cold hearts aren't worth the love or the hate learn to let go learn to walk away out from the shadows i'm seduced by the light of the flame and this time i'm here to stay gunpowder residue bright lights and turpentine true colors shining through as we are stripped of all exteriors because there is hate and there is love and there is loss but there is right and there is wrong than there is us we're falling until we learn to stand up and just to walk away sometimes the cold hearts aren't worth the love or the hate learn to let go learn to walk away out from the shadows i'm seduced again by the light of the flames this time I'm here to stay feet first into the quicksand every day we are surrendering never straying from the game plan I keep hoping you will take my hand and stand up the waters overflowing the walls are breaking but i will wait here knowing that we can make it and there's light still glowing a light I'm chasing i've been lost before and I have been led astray but this time I'm here to stay