Now the day has come.
We are forsaken this time.

We lived our lives in our paradise,
as gods we shaped the world around.
No borderlines we'd stay behind,
though balance is something fragile.

While we thought we were gaining,
we would turn back the tide, it still slips away.
Our time has run out, our future has died,
there's no more escape.

Now the day has come,
we are forsaken,
there's no time anymore.
Life will pass us by,
we are forsaken,
we're the last of our kind.

The sacrifice was much too high,
our greed just made us all go blind.
We tried to hide what we feared inside.
Today is the end of tomorrow.


Lyrics submitted by Mord Sith, edited by gravethief13, sirchedge

Forsaken Lyrics as written by Sharon J. Den Adel Robert Westerholt

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    I agree, except I think this is written from the point of view of someone living a decade or two from now if we continue our present course. When the wonton deforestation, polution, etc, has brought the world to the point where it can no longer support us and humans will be on the endangered list... (We’re the last of our kind) Then we will at last put aside the greed that has brought us there and make an attempt to stop it, but it is too little, too late. The effects of our pollution continue long after they are released, stopping the production when we're on the brink won't be enough. (As the sea started rising, The land that we’d conquered just washed away.) Global warming melting the icecaps, rising the sea levels... We conquer the land rather than living with it. (Though balance is something fragile) The ecosystem is a fragile balance that we are tipping. (The sacrifice was much too high) The sacrifice is the destruction of our world in exchange for the profit we make in the process. (Today is the end of tomorrow) This is the best line. Usually it is flipped around "The death of today is only the birth of tomorrow", a cliche of optimism. Here is is the opposite. What we do today is destroying tomorrow.

    mhortonon February 27, 2007   Link

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