Nowhere Left to Run

My words are on the wire, but no one's on the other end of the connection Everybody says we've come so far but no one questions the direction It's so hard not to look away To more than just get through the day It's hard to find the time for reflection We've been searching for the truth, looking in the cracks of the stories that we're told Casting our eyes downward, sifting through the dirt to find the gold I fear the consequences will Catch up to us before we kill The curse that's kept us spiritless and cold We built a world in our own images We destroy the things we need to hide our blemishes We keep our faces hidden from the sun But there's nowhere left to run You can feel the tension rising just like the vibrations of a bell That's tolled eleven times. We hold our breath and wait upon the twelve Don't trust that their machinery Can alter fate so easily You can start again. That's the tale they try to sell We built a world in our own images We destroy the things we need to hide our blemishes We've got to do this for our daughters and our sons Because there's nowhere left to run