What is the world coming to?

We hate to say hello
when we're always saying goodbye.
And when the time comes, we procrastinate
just to make the time come later.
What is the world coming to?

We can't make even one thing come to an end.
The truth no longer exists
and we cover our sins with even more.
Like the times you tell a lie
and your freinds find out
so you find some way to cover your lie with another.

We want to know the truth
but theres doubt that we would ever get it.
We want to feel alive,
but that's to hard with all the lies.
Will the truth ever be told again?
I'm always wondering if it will.

When it comes time to speak
we hold everything back,
just because we don't want to be the first
to break the thin ice we stand upon.
We wish to be just like everybody else--
to follow the crowd.
No one stands up for the rights we live for
and who will lead us?
Like all the times your looking for the captain of a team,
but no one stands up to the plate
to do the job.

If no one breaks out of this shell we're all living under
we're just going to become isolated
and consumed with fear and hate.
Like when you're being held back by one of your freinds
just because they don't like the other,
and you just let them take over
and pull you in different directions, tearing you apart.

One of us needs to take a stand and try
to make a difference
out of this mess we made for ourselves,
to fill the hole in which we dig deeper every day.

Many have tried
and many have failed
but we need to change that
and find a way
to get the truth to spread
so that all the rumors of hatred,
or being gay,
or being emo,
or punk,
or goth,
can finally come to an end.
What is the world coming to?

We hurt each other
to make ourselves stronger.
Telling all the lies
and sharing all the secrets--
We step on each other
recklessly.
Forcefully.
Like ants on a hill.

When will one of us be strong enough
to step up to the plate
and make a statement
that was meant to be heard
and followed,
and shared,
and spread?
What is the world coming to?

We cheat
and find ways around everything we don't want to do,
taking people out of poverty
to do all our chores
and then
leaving them with nothing
except visions
of how to touch up their future
home.
What is the world coming to?

We need to be heard
and seen,
and thought of,
in better ways than now.
So what are you doing to make it happen?
What are you doing to help make a change?

What is the world coming to?