What will you tell your children
When they ask you "What went wrong?"
How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost
To eyes that know only a wasteland?
How will you justify
Justify watching the world die?

The clock is ticking, can't you feel our days are numbered?
Head first into disaster from which there will be no return
With narrow minds we decimate our one true home
Cast into oblivion, judgement is calling

Behold the pale horse
This is the funeral of the earth
Behold the pale horse
This is the funeral

The blind eye can no longer be cast
The clock is ticking, there is no second chance

The blind eye can no longer be cast
There will be no future, if we can't learn from our mistakes
The clock is ticking, there is no second chance
There will be no future, if we can't learn

A forced extinction closes out the age of apathy
The final act, sacrifice the world's ecology
The death of beauty, the death of hope
Cast before the throne of avarice, judgement is calling

Behold the pale horse
This is the funeral of the earth
Behold the pale horse
This is the funeral

The blind eye can no longer be cast
There will be no future, if we can't learn from our mistakes
The clock is ticking, there is no second chance
There will be no future, if we can't learn

I can't watch it burn
I can't watch it burn
I can't watch it burn
I can't watch it burn

I can't watch it burn
I can't watch it burn
I can't watch it burn

Behold the pale horse

The blind


Lyrics submitted by theDwearsP, edited by jerome1, AlexAsura, BlueDiamondx3

Dark Days Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Cleve Ling Benjamin Michael Gordon

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    Awesome awesome song! Very angry! Parkway drive rulz!

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