They make your bed, don't they?
Long ago they fought and died for faith - what's changed?
It's said that we've learned tolerance to build more bridges
Cross those rivers, yet modern man enslaves his conscious
The undertow of blame still flows between

Giving birth to the machine
Hostilities of ancestry
Slow to understand the variance
Quick to judge on one aspect
Rust

We call them fools today
They will call us fools in days to come - what's changed?
In any age it's ignorance
He that is not with me is against me
The river of pride swells too high
Washing those bridges out to sea

Giving birth to the machine
Too proud to love - too proud
Soaking in your fears, rusting away
Never comprehending, always condescending me
Slow to understand
Quick to judge, quick to condem
Rust

Carried them for years
Stones that they once cast
Place the blame on them as if it were their past
Yesterday's distrust
Resent, regret, disgust

Still we pay for their living
Pay for their mistakes (Always)
Who will cast the latest stones of hate? (Always)
Pay for their misgivings, pay for their living
We find that on the surface there is rust


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    most thought out lyrics by lagwagon ever in my opinion.

    -faith is runing out -machine is a mistake by man

    know it allon April 19, 2002   Link

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