[V1] I wake up to a place/ where I wish my eyes deceived me/ but when I try to open them again/ the wind blows the sand/ as hot as fire in my face/ but once it clears/ I see a barren land/ raped of it’s old beauty/ as vast deserts/ cover the once grassy hills/ I stumble over our gift/ that lay in its own ruin/ this is what we’ve done/ as we fall into the rift [C1] We’ve abandon right/ we’ve darkened our hope/ we’ve lost ourselves too wrong/ to the grave we take our sin/ to the grave we take our pride/ we’ve ignored the narrow road he gave/ and took the one we made/ we’ve condemned ourselves to the grave [V2] I look and see/ a girl’s image growing in the distance/ her rotting eyes starring right back at me/ her hair is vines/ her smile is gone/ her young wrinkled face/ aged by the sun/ slowly she points her finger to the sky/ eyes still staring through me/ as she screams/ “Back to the dust we fall/ back to the dust we die”/ we don’t deserve what we have been given/ we’ve made our decision [C2] We’ve abandon right/ we’ve darkened our hope/ we’ve lost ourselves too wrong/ to the grave we take our sin/ to the grave we take our pride/ we’ve ignored the narrow road he gave/ and took the one we made/ we’ve condemned ourselves to the grave [Bridge, soft quiet voice]] Lost our purpose But gained emptiness Relied on our reason Committed treason Destroyed our paradise Became a parasite YEAH/ WE NEED/ SOME ONE TOO/ REVIVE OUR/ LIFELESS FACES/ SOME ONE TOO/ FREE OUR/ trapped souls/ free our/ free my trapped soul/ [guitar solo] [End, a silent voice again] We’ve lost our purpose And gained emptiness Fallen on our own reason Yeah we committed treason ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ That’s version 2, probably one more to come based on you guys opinions, to better polish it up. When I was thinking of a subject matter to write, I decided not to go again like Linkin Park and many here, and write about how some one did me wrong or how I hate some one [Lord knows I have allot of those], so I picked a deeper subject, something I haven’t really seen written to much. Please respond, I really want some constructive criticism