Take It to Heart

We take it to heart

With benevolence in our minds

But the will is weak

And intentions are lost in time

We rationalize

And trace our thoughts to times before

When we echoed advertising

And the quest to consume even more

Call it ignorance or greed

Or just a breach in our compassion

That keeps us drowning in decay

We've got to reconnect ourselves

And make it something more than fashion

Beforе we burn it all away

We learn to ignorе

Diverting eyes from proof

Deciding comfort is more

Consequential than the truth

As our humanity wanes

And the blood runs thick upon our hands

We embrace the weakest path

Deciding not to make our stand

Call it ignorance or greed

Or just a breach in our compassion

That keeps us drowning in decay

We've got to reconnect ourselves

And make it something more than fashion

Before we burn it all away

Catatonic invertebrate

Convenience holds our fate

Will not endeavor to defy

If might makes right the way it's read

A purpose for which none were bred

What will our madness justify?

Decrepit slaughterhouses drowning in the filth

Of mutilation

Incarceration

Disease and pestilence devoured all the same

Call it ignorance or greed

Or just a breach in our compassion

That keeps us drowning in decay

We've got to reconnect ourselves

And make it something more than fashion

Before we burn it all away