Parallel Worlds (Beware Of The Tree)

Knowledge and ignorance
Humbleness and arrogance
Crop fields and land mines
Virginia Tech, post Columbine
Computers and bomb cars
Innocence and soul scars

We can go into space
We can blow up this place
Through this karmic unbalance
Live in shame and disgrace
We can go into space
We can blow up this place
Through this karmic unbalance
Live in shame and disgrace

Without a paradigm shift
All the schools, all the technology
Will just keep pushing us adrift

So while immersed in this strange paradox
While poverty skyrockets and we mess up our world
We forget how to be caring, human, selfless individuals
Thus we perpetrate through our children
These insane, suicidal rituals

Parents, government, society
Your commitment is now crucial
For to change this ill behavior
Each of us must be our savior

Cause we think we're so creative in this ploy
But we don't save as many lives as we destroy
No, we don't save as many lives as we destroy
We're short-sighted boys with deadly toys

Woundless irresponsibility
A collateral calamity
So progress becomes a dire fallacy
A breeder of sorrow and misery
Not prepared for condemnation
Or instant gratification
And while injustice prevails
Ultimately
Civilization fails

We can go into space
We can blow up this place
Through this karmic unbalance
Live in shame and disgrace
We can go into space
We can blow up this place
Through this karmic unbalance
Live in shame and disgrace

Civilization fails