Will you create a lasting world?
Will you dry our tears
Will you ensure life for every boy or girl
That's the sum of all our fears
That's the sum of all our fears
Are your eyes seeing, what our eyes see
These visions of hell and heaven not free
Will you close the book and just let it be
While the water boils down in the sea
That's the sum of all our tears
That's the sum of all our tears
With your finger on the buttons of a warhead
Will you press the red button marked send
Will you let loose the dogs of war unlead
Like the fossil fuels that have come to an end
For that's the sum of all our fears
That's the sum of all our fears
There wasn't a dry eye in the house
When the film of Earth ran off its reel
The director was as quiet as a mouse
But you could hear every producer just squeal
Will you ask mother nature for a refund
Saying I thought we had a lifetime's guarantee
She said look son what you've made me do
It's because of you that I had to roam free
So I stare in the mirror like a mad man
And ask myself what am I going to do?
Just wait for death here in the badlands
Where the dry winds are blowing their due
Shine a light in from outside Lord
For this house is going into the shade
And we're sitting beneath a hanging sword
It's one that's only man-made
Let us be judged by a court of our peers
Let the hammer stroke beat on the gavel
For this is the sum of all our fears
For our fears yet have a long way to travel
