Come A Time - ThouShaltNot

When the sky turns black and the floodplains crack

And you can not look away

Because on every side is the unstoppable tide in motion

From the very first day

Will you fall down with your knees to the ground in the hopes

That you will be spared

From whatever the wrath that may lie in the path of those

Whose convictions dared

And when you're called to serve

Will you have the nerve to do all that you know is wrong

Just to save your skin no matter which side wins

Just to know that you were there all along

Is it better to reign in a world of pain

Than to serve a cause divine

We'll see who you are underneath darkened stars

There will come a time

There will come a time

And where does evil lie in the heart in the eye

Is it a guest without a host

And does your mind concede to what your body needs

To what a silent hunger craves most

And bending word to the limb falling out giving in

Will you see all that earth would conceal

Below the melting land and underneath the desert sand

Is the desperate voice inside you even real

And is it true when you stare into the sun

You can see the insides of sight itself

Is there a way to speak but not say

So you'll know if words come from you or something else

What do you hold in your hand

What do you understand to be only thine

And are you ever free and can never be unclothed to the wind

Uncovered to the bone

Will there come a time

But who am I to ask you how your lips will move your words

And who am I to know the way your fingers curl

And who am I to wonder just what skin you've chosen this day

And who am I to stand behind you and to claim I see your eyes