A million points of light
Ascending to the sky
Monuments in darkness
Standing watch
Until the sun will rise
Screaming to an emptiness
Of how we once defined ourselves
With our hands over our eyes
Claiming all of creation

What inspires in us this madness
That out existence should be defined
By a light that can't be seen by anyone
What inspires in us this madness
That out existence should be defined
By a light that we can't see
By a light that can't be seen

A million points of light
Ascending to the sky
Monuments in darkness
Standing watch
Until the sun will rise
I can't, I can't see this all as progress
How did we come this far?
When we see ourselves as deities
Claiming nature for ourselves
By our actions we betray
The instincts in our race
By our blindness and stupidity
We kill everything
We kill everything

Can someone see our self destruction?
Are we reminding ourselves
That our existence is so delicate
That without this light we are no more
That without this light we've made we are no more

A million points of light
Ascending to the sky
Monuments in darkness
Standing watch
Until the sun will rise
We torch this earth until it bleeds
Rain ashes from the sky
Just to make a light that no one can see
We cut this earth until it bleeds
Rain ashes from the sky
Just to make a light that no one can see
Just to make a light
Just to make a light
We kill everything
By our blindness and stupidity
We kill everything

In a thousand years, what will be our legacy?
A million lights that no one can see
A million points of light


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Carbon Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos

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    Honestly I thought embers were the points of light and the ashes/smoke rising from them were the monuments in darkness (obviously since it would have to be at night time to see the embers).

    The rest seems hint at our dogma and how it's destroying us. All this fighting and bullshit over doing what we think is right for something we can't even prove, or for the sake of progress. Do good for goodness sake and not for your ego or someone/something else. In the end there will be no one to witness anything we've done if we're all dead; no people, no consciousness, no god for us to imagine either.

    GeraldCon February 26, 2012   Link

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