State of the Nation

Again you see the sun rise

Through two shattered eyes

This time around

It’s a little darker than you recall

Different colors, different shades

Cast upon your four walls

Another crooked shadow

We’re in fear, we’re in fear

Remember when the past was just a distant memory

Those days are coming back again

Remember when the past was not where we want to be

Now there’s no going back

Now that we’re going back

Who was I and who were you?

We lost ourselves in the cloud of your selfishness

Who am I and who are you?

We’re all watching your next move

The state of the nation

Divisible by one

Disparity, injustice for some

And what you believed in

Is a false light leading us to ask

Where do we go from here?

I remember the fear, 

I remember the comfort of growing up without understanding

Now I have answers, but nobody hears me

Calling for help in the dark

Buying into seconds just to look at the time and see things are not what they used to be

There’s more to life than the minutes we waste buying into ten seconds of blind ambition

Who was I and where were you?

Reading through the lines to act another scene

Who am I and where are you?

Living in a world existing in a screen

All these memories of who we want to be

Innocent, understood, one thing remains

Still I come open arms, open heart

To the ones that would do the same

I’ll keep waiting

The state of the nation

Divisible by one

Disparity, injustice for some

And what you believed in

Is a false light leading to the beginning of the end