Ashes

Here we stand and face the world

Renegades of consternation

Innocent in thought and word

Ready for a new sensation

Block up the dam, close up the well to stop it flowing

Your memory is not preferred

For that is not the way we're going

Sliding away from liberty to lethargy we fall

Subsiding again collapsing from the burden of it all

But time after time we believe in better

Never let a chance pass us by

And we're sure we'll never fail to notice

Sign after sign that a change is coming

Time is running out like the tide

But we think we're on a march of progress

From ashes we rise to ashes we fall

We cannot disguise our hand in it all

Here we stand and take the blame

We thought that this could last forever

We turned our backs on God again

But everybody longs for heaven

Sliding away from vision to deficiency we fall

Subsiding again collapsing from the burden of it all

But time after time we believe in better

Never let a chance pass us by

And we're sure we'll never fail to notice

Sign after sign that a change is coming

Time is running out like the tide

But we think we're on a march of progress

Here we stand and face the end

Apathy alive and growing

On independence we depend

But that is not the way we're going

Sliding away from plenty to dependency we fall

Subsiding again collapsing from the burden of it all

But time after time we believe in better

Never let a chance pass us by

And we're sure we'll never fail to notice

Sign after sign that a change is coming

Time is running out like the tide

But we think we're on a march of progress

But we think we're on a march of progress