An Affirming Flame Lyrics


When will it ever be enough?

When nuclear ashes block the stars?

When ocean current finally stops?

Or solar fire takes us all?

The tension will not break

Our push increases strain

and still we tear, kill and maim

Cast in a delusion

of self-important arrogance

Our perception in a void

that cares not for what we think

And the world doesn’t care about you

this whole herd is fucking doomed

When the populace cannot regenerate

this planet becomes a tomb

To think of the billions

who have lived and died in vain

fighting for this world

full of so much hollow pain

I know you feel it too

this spectre haunting you

I’ve seen this vision of the end before

Is this not injustice? Is this not unfair?

Are we supposed to watch our lives fall to ash?

I show an affirming flame

No victory I proclaim

But a mark of the just

Made of Eros and of dust

Negation and despair

ruins the world we share

Our world in stupor lies

We must love one another or die

“and nothing changes if we don’t change ourselves…”

And nothing changes

if we don’t change ourselves

This world is dying

Condemned to living Hell

So stand up

and heed my pleas

Or be a slave and

die on your knees

And I stand and wait

for the final hour to come

But I will not run

I will not fucking run

So we’ll rally round the flag

Till death becomes us all

If that’s all there is

My hope will not fall

Fight for life

Our last chance

Humanity’s sunset

Awaiting us

Oblivion

All that we have

is but this moment

The trial of mankind

goes on

and on

I show an affirming flame

In the hope that things will change

Give not into your fear

Else our world disappears