The country is desolate
The city ablaze
Watch it burn!
Watch it burn to the ground!
Watch it burn to the ground!

Delicate hands barely gripping
Tiny fingers wrap the trigger
Condition our young to defend us
from dangerous men

This is an age old altercation
Join your hands and let us pray
Fighting with fire to simmer the flames
Where are the wise? Testify!
Killing for peace, unite to divide
Save us. Forgive us
Put aside your pride
so we can survive

Delicate hands barely gripping
Tiny fingers wrap the trigger
Condition our young to defend us
from dangerous men

Rise above the shadows
putting forth your hands
God will shield his eyes
in spite of all your prayers
and he will not hear
Your hands, stained of blood
What have we become from a smoking gun?
What have we become?
What have we become?

Watch it burn!
Watch it burn to the ground!
Watch it burn to the ground!
We're fighting alongside self-destruction

Rise above the shadows
putting forth your hands
God will shield his eyes
in spite of all your prayers
and he will not hear
Your hands, stained of blood
What have we become from a smoking gun?
What have we become?

Rise above the shadows putting forth your hands
God will shield his eyes
in spite of all your prayers
Rise above the shadows putting forth your hands
God will shield his eyes
in spite of all your prayers

There is no sense in your head
(Rise above the shadows
putting forth your hands.)
Are we lost? Are we condemned?
(God will shield his eyes
in spite of all your prayers)

There is no sense in your head
(Rise above the shadows
putting forth your hands.)
Are we lost? Are we condemned?
(God will shield his eyes
"in spite of all your prayers)