If Hope Dies - The Hungry Ghost lyrics

when man made the choice that production holds more meaning than life

he sentenced our world

to a slow and lingering death

strip the land of all it holds

clear the forests down to the last stone

convert the living to the dead

and lose your life in the process

our civilization can reach no peak

it must continue to ravage the landscape

consume all the riches it has to offer

swallowed down into a stomach

that can never be full

just like a parasite

our industries cripple their host

and leave it

too weak to stand

we can lay no claim to this land

where did mankind develop hisentitlement?

to rape this earth and sky

to leave it choking and waiting to die

shows that we have developed

a terrible hatred of life

our culture is too busy

consuming it's dead remains

to see the carnage on either

side of it's face

yes, this is a reality

as real as the poisons we eat

it's in everything we touch

we have all been marked for death

as our skies turn grey

and our water becomes deadly to drink

we will all perish

this will be our end

our desire for production

has doomed us

we cannot defend

our selfish actions

up to this point

how can we stop

this monster that

we've created?

it will never rest

until it's never-ending

hunger has been sated

just one more species extinct.