
Date of issue: 23.09.2014
Song language: English
Why I Want This World to End |
The world is coming to an end |
The air is polluted, the oceans contaminated |
The animals are going extinct, the economy’s collapsed |
Education is shot, police are corrupt |
Intelligence is shunned and ignorance rewarded |
The people are depressed and angry |
We can’t live with each other and we can’t live with ourselves |
So everyone’s medicated |
We pass each other on the streets |
And if we do speak it’s meaningless robotic communication |
More people want 15 seconds of fame |
Than a lifetime of meaning and purpose |
Because what’s popular is more important than what’s right |
Ratings are more important than the truth |
Our government builds twice as many prisons than schools |
It’s easier to find a Big Mac than an apple |
And when you find the apple |
It’s been genetically processed and modified |
Presidents lie, politicians trick us |
Race is still an issue and so is religion |
Your God doesn’t exist, my God does and he is All-Loving |
If you disagree with me I’ll kill you |
Or even worse argue you to death |
92% of songs on the radio are about sex |
Kids don’t play tag, they play twerk videos |
The average person watches 5 hours of television a day |
And it’s more violence on the screen than ever before |
Technology has given us everything we could ever want |
And at the same time stolen everything we really need |
Pride is at an all time high, humility, an all time low |
Everybody knows everything, everybody’s going somewhere |
Ignoring someone, blaming somebody |
Not many human beings left anymore, a lot of human doings |
Plenty of human lingerings in the past, not many human beings |
Money is still the root of all evil |
Yet we tell our kids don’t get that degree |
The jobs don’t pay enough |
Good deeds are only done when there’s a profit margin |
Videos of the misfortunes of others go viral |
We laugh and share them with our friends to laugh with us |
Our role models today |
60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be |
There are states where people can legally be discriminated against Because they |
were born a certain way |
Companies invest millions of dollars hiring specialists to make Little girls |
feel like they need «make up"to be beautiful Permanently lowering their self |
esteem |
Because they will never be pretty enough |
To meet those impossible standards |
Corporations tell us buy, buy, buy, get this, get that |
You must keep up, you must fit in |
This will make you happy, but it never does for long |
So what can we do in the face of all of this madness and chaos? |
What is the solution? |
We can love |
Not the love you hear in your favorite song on the radio |
I mean real love, true love, boundless love |
You can love, love each other |
From the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed |
Perform an act of kindness because that is contagious |
We can be mindful during every interaction |
Planting seeds of goodness |
Showing a little more compassion than usual |
We can forgive |
Because 300 years from now will that grudge you hold against Your friend, |
your mother, your father have been worth it? |
Instead of trying to change others we can change ourselves |
We can change our hearts |
We have been sold lies |
Brainwashed by our leaders and those we trust |
To not recognize our brothers and sisters |
And to exhibit anger, hatred and cruelty |
But once we truly love we will meet anger with sympathy |
Hatred with compassion, cruelty with kindness |
Love is the most powerful weapon on the face of the Earth |
Robert Kennedy once said that |
Few will have the greatness to bend history |
But each of us can work to change a small portion of events |
And in the total of all those act |
Will be written in the history of a generation |
So yes, the world is coming to an end |
And the path towards a new beginning starts within you |
Name | Year |
---|---|
I Quit | 2020 |
I Am Not a Label | 2015 |
Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? | 2014 |