Ghost Cities

We're drinking in the last dregs
We've raped the land, sky, and sea
If you want to eat you'll serve our greed
Cake for all until no mouths can speak

Dead air
Burn my lungs
Eyes sting
Slowly suffocating
If we
Could go back in time
And see the clear blue skylines
Before they
Were wiped away like fog from glass
Just gone one day

Hold me close for the time that's left
Searching the same gray skies, for signs
this nightmare will end
Walk with me through empty streets
Roaming the ghost cities as dusk falls on who we used to be

We're drinking in the last dregs
We've raped the land, sky, and sea
If you want to eat you'll serve our greed
Cake for all until no mouths can speak

Speak to me
Of days long past
Of verdant greens
And deep blue seas
And starlit plains that stretch for days
Or the lost sounds of children at play
Father how were we so blind
Were there not signs
The bold headlines
Increased divides
Public outcry

As forests burn, they preach the word, so unconcerned
And laugh as the ashes fall at dawn, that we choke on
Baiting our protest just to say we we're the ones to blame

Hold me close for the time that's left
Searching the same gray skies, for signs
this nightmare will end
Walk with me through empty streets
Roaming the ghost cities as dusk falls on who we used to be
Sit with me as fires peak, embers of our history, just float away on the toxic breeze

Where's your god now?
It's a fine time
For him to show up now