What If

We built huge temples to keep our fear out the door

The dark is crawling near the walls drawing shadows to hide

We filled our most precious books with interdictions and laws

And promised ourselves a fabulous life on the other side

We made up habits and rites, we often knelt and prayed, polite

To the air around, the walls, the ground, to be heaven-insured

We hope we'll pass the fear we've lived with all these years

Singing some dull, absurdly long chorale, hoping there is a cure

What if there's nothing more?

What if this is all we've got

And we're wasting our precious time preparing for nothing?

Are we really so afraid?

Do we need all this masquerade?

We have to face the fact that we don't know anything

We managed to kill our brothers for they had other beliefs

We completely forgot where we all came from

And now we think we're different

We burned the curious at the stake

We condemned the devil and the snake

For our weakness when we broke the rules

We made up ourselves

What if there's nothing more?

What if this is all we've got

And we're wasting our precious time preparing for nothing?

Are we really so afraid?

Do we need all this masquerade?

We have to face the fact that we don't know anything