What We’re Marching Toward

[Verse 1]
Share with me scriptures and help me to know
It’s easier to sink than to rise
The black and white bullets that fly from my mouth
Are hand-picked tired old lines
My shoes have worn through from this walking around
It’s time to stand still and fight
Even the loudest of words will not make a sound
Compared to the sound of what’s right

[Chorus]
I saw a man on the news tonight
Crying for his child in the war
He looked at the camera and asked with his eyes
Do we know what we’re marching toward

[Verse 2]
In the halls and the courts the dead kings cry out
Power is a slow turning wheel
Oh it came around for us and it’ll come around for you
It only gives what it can then steal
And the high headed men who built the engine that runs
Are cold and dead in the ground
What they built when they lived when they died was undone
Except for what’s holding us down

[Chorus]
I saw a man on the news tonight
Crying for his child in the war
He looked at the camera and asked with his eyes
Do we know what we’re marching toward

[Verse 3]
Now choose to believe in that silver tongue dream
Or try to rightly see
That the strings you feel at the end of the day
Are the same strings pulling on me
And if the truth can be beaten and tied to a chair
And made to say whatever we want
Then the words that we serve are nothing but ours
And our god is not god after all

[Chorus]
I saw a man on the news tonight
Crying for his child in the war
He looked at the camera and asked with his eyes
Do we know what we’re marching toward