The Methuselah Tree

So many scars on this bark
Etchings of a race in the dark
Making our superior mark
For a future so impossibly stark

The tree sees all, knows all
Watches us fall whilst we ignore its calls

You, like me, are anything but free
Maybe with its knowledge, we too, will cut and not bleed

We don't know the earth
We don't know we have just one mistake
We are catastrophe-bound
Face Methuselah and awake

We don't know the earth
We don't know we have just one mistake
We are catastrophe-bound
Face Methuselah and awake

Lies whispered on the wind
Betrayal hoped to keep within
This regressive collective
Wisdom wasted freely
Encouraging fleets of greed
A balance shifts in me

We don't know the earth
We don't know we have just one mistake
We are catastrophe-bound
Face Methuselah and awake

We don't know the earth
We don't know we have just one mistake
We are catastrophe-bound
Face Methuselah and awake

We don't know the earth
We don't know we have just one mistake
We are catastrophe-bound
Face Methuselah and awake

I see a future so bleak (we don't know the earth)
With only dead leaves (we don't know we have just one mistake)
And a hundred broken dreams (we are catastrophe-bound)
(Face Methuselah and awake)

I see a future so bleak (we don't know the earth)
With only dead leaves (we don't know we have just one mistake)
And a hundred broken dreams (we are catastrophe-bound)
(Face Methuselah and awake)