As we give in to despair, a disease gains power
When we choose to fight without morals, we lose
In Nanking, Wounded Knee, My Lai, Malmedy
Humanity is forever grieved when innocents cower
Morally undeveloped, unwise, needing the truth
We must rise above the slaughter, the catastrophes
More than love thy neighbor, we must care for all
If we do, we will escape our fate, our failed destiny
For now is the time to change, now is the final hour
Should we fail to act, our world will fade away
Into a death spiral from which we cannot escape
We've turned away, in horror, in fear, we've cried
Rwanda, Treblinka, Armenia, Holodomor, Darfur
The names though alien sounding are all genocide
And every death echoes through the tears of time
