When the Future Comes (feat. Anton Mueller & Bob Piper)

There are hundreds, maybe thousands now
Walking over the hill
Past the wreckage, with there heads unbowed
They'd forgotten the thrill
Always wanted to change the world
Now its fallen away
Can't we take it and make it work
This future day?

When the future comes
There was silver in the air
All the dreams succumb
Whistling like a dare
When the future falls
Ladders slide like rain
What we always imagined
Silent rungs, silent ringing
Will follow?

How can we ever see outside the stone and glass
The future that will be beyond our patterned past?
How can we ever know a future we can own
A future we won't break to pieces?
Of falling shadows

There are thousand, maybe millions now
Coming over the hill
Past the wreckage of the dreams they've sown
And will cherish still
Mouths to feed and clothes to patch and clean
When will true change begin?
Eyes that feed on all the space and green
Of freedom
Freedom

How can we ever see?
How can we ever know?
How can we ever tell?
How can we ever show?
How can we even find?
Where can we ever go?
(Into a state of mind and meaning
That isn't borrowed?)

You think you tear it down and then
Someone builds it up again
You think you tear it down and someone builds it up
You think you tear it down
And someone builds it up again
You think you tear it down and someone builds it up
And on and on and on and on and on

Millions and millions more
Have come over the hill
Past the wreckage of the dream before
Always emptied and filled
Mouths to feed and clothes to patch and clean
When will true change begin?
Eyes that feed on what is unspoken
Freedom

How can we ever see?
What do we see?
How can we ever know?
How can we know?
How can we ever tell?
What can you tell me so we can find
How can we ever show?
How can we even find?
How can we ever go
Into a state of mind and meaning
That isn't borrowed?

When the future comes
When the future comes
When the future comes
When the future comes tomorrow, hollow
To you
To me