The World Breathes with Me

So this is who we are Forced to want to watch the sorrow The short leash and the led The suicide, the addict, the voyeur, the dead Are you comfortable? Did you do enough of nothing? Hand to hardened lungs and barely breathing So tell yourself there's peace on Earth And sing us all to sleep And now you shake your fist And spit and curse the question Why tell these bloody hands To waste their hate on this beautiful life? So tell yourself there's peace on Earth The words that cost a weeping's worth I hear the echoes in the dirt When silence took the loudest first God forgive us, peace on Earth No, I can't watch anymore Close your eyes, love And wait till we learn from war 'Til echoes for the deaf are all that's left So give me peace or give me Your futile reckoning Little dreams for little men Truth, a patient weapon Waits to sting the spiteful again So tell yourself there's peace on Earth The words that cost a weeping's worth I hear the echoes in the dirt When silence took the loudest first Please forgive me I want it and I deserve it The fractured and the frail lie below to feed it I want it and I believe it Reflections of myself, the crime, the crowd, the creedless I want it and I deserve it The fractured and the frail lie below to feed it I want it, I want the world I know Close your eyes No, I can't watch anymore Close your eyes (I made mountains, I shook the earth) (The flood, the voice, the blood, what the peace was worth) Oh, let me drift from the shore (I want it, I want it, I want it) On the road to ruin And we're still walkin' with stones to weigh us down But hey, I'm still breathing On the road to ruin As long as you're with me, I'll be singing I breathe and the world breathes with me I breathe and the world breathes with me I breathe and the world breathes with me I breathe and the world breathes with me The world breathes with me The world is in me The world breathes with me