In Another Now

In another now The words we speak Will fade away And mean nothing to me We are an avalanche of doubt Suffocating in the wake Passed the point of no return The rivers like the devil's veins will guide the way Our chrysalis in chains We've outstayed our welcome under a thirstful sun Like an island lost at sea Naive to science the water eats away And all we do is preach a way To cure what we can't keep In another now The words we speak Will fade away And mean nothing to me It means something to me I climb to the top of the mountain And found another towering over me At the edge without intention or sense To find a destiny kept behind the fence That she tempts us to ascend Lock gate, hide the keys Take the pain that we feel and call it hope Why do we destroy everything we try to love? Take the pain that we feel and call it hope We destroy everything we try to love Again and again our vice tradition When will we learn our rapture is our prison? Like an island lost at sea Naive to science the water eats away And all we do is preach a way To cure what we can't keep And mean nothing to me It means something to me It's mine but it's probably stolen Paid the price but it's probably free For a life unprescribed, an escape from the lines I can survive if I know you are we