The View

in a world of complicated living, games of indestruction played by fools

terrorists, police & politicians, twisted values, inconsistent rules

gunshots fired in schools kill teens & children

imagine being there to face your doom 

in washington, the congressmen are sleeping 

with N.R.A. officials in the room

(chorus) out on a mountain top searching the horizon for a clue

a path leads us higher to the top of the planet 

and from the sun emerges the view

lately seems like everybody’s dying, lifetimes end for people that i knew 

it makes me want to quit but i’ll keep trying 

to find an inner strength to pull me through

in my bones i feel the era ended, reflections of the age from which we grew

a flight once at its peak is now descended 

and fallen to a gentle see of blue (chorus)