A Civil Critique - Nasum

I gaze at the smouldering ashes below

It chills my mind

What once was grand

Is but destruction and cinder bestowed

It’s not a haze, it’s not a phase

As we slaughter generations to come

Exploit our world

One more step and we’re done!

As we slaughter generations to come

One more step and we’re done!

We know it as civilization

Seems more like depravation

I shun all, give us deliverance

Here comes our bitter penance

…And I detest!

A promise to protect

Not to conquer and oppress

What a mess

It seems nothing is sacred

When the earth is at stake

…And we regress

Unconscious use of resource

People, states and fear

I feel depressed

The liars we were to be

No earth for us to see

We know it as civilization

Seems more like depravation

I shun all, give us deliverance

Here comes our bitter penance

Civil = evil?!