A Century Ends

Cast your eyes into the distance
 Try to focus on it all
 Find a spirit of resistance
 Instead of pride before the fall
 Forge some opposition
 From disparate strands
 It ain't the prettiest position
 As a century ends
 Unstable situation
 Faces made of wax
 Streams of melting glass
 Sheets of butchered facts
 The roar of the machine
 Hooded hearts and jewelled hands
 And anger spilling out like gasoline
 As a century ends
 Everything I seen, everything that I heard
 It ain't even the top of the iceberg
 Fire down memory lane
 So pass me my rose tinted glasses again
 Through a fog of contradiction
 Out to the lake of tears
 See society admiring it's own reflection
 Chase a light that shines and disappears
 Careful what you say, 'cause reality offends
 Just sit back and let your soul decay
 As a century ends
 And it's easy to get weary
 As you fight to get it done
 Against a popular theory
 That it's over before it's even begun
 Strain the limit of compassion
 Tend a wound that never mends
 And honesty still out of fashion
 As a century ends