The Beast

With my own eyes, I saw it creeping. Crept up from shadows in the ground
So small in size, but growing with each new life that it put out
Oh, with teeth and claws like razors, it bids you sleep forever
Takes you up to heaven or down into the depths
Slowly, it will drag you, kill and disembowel you
It will show you how to make earth into hell

Because war breeds war, yes it goes on and on. Give your life and then it's gone
With my own eyes

I saw it moving. Ominous, it lumbers through the towns
What brings up governments and economies ironically bring us all down
Oh, the charges they are dropping, the gears they are all turning
Slowly we are learning that we can't stop it now
Oh, machines of war, so great no one could see that war has now become our biggest industry

Because war breeds war, yes it goes on and on. Give your life and then it's gone
With my own eyes

With my own eyes I saw it plotting. Manipulate the hearts of men
The violence broke out in a second and left so many millions dead
Oh, the sand and the cement laid a dying mans lament was to fight and die for lies
Oh to fight and die in vain
The blind, they sing their song as the blonde follow along and the world runs red with bombs

And as it sat amongst the wreckage, stomach engorged from flesh and bone
With my own eyes, I saw it birthing it's children. The cycle now continues