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Mother, tell me, why do the waters make us sick? [1] Who bleeds the heavens making the clouds rain pestilence? [2] Dropping fever, [3] like manna from the morning sky [4] Gather your children and hold them as they die [5] Panic humming in the palm of my hand Silent vectors injected with the curse of man [6] Bodies dissected, heartbeats redirected [7] The past was dead, [8] why did we resurrect it? [9] Strange fruit [10] grows on the vine [11] of humankind Beneath a bright synthetic sky, I saw the future die A web of wires in our mind Weaves an empire down our spine [12] I fear we've sealed our fate There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity Strange fruit is growing on the vine Beneath a bright synthetic sky I fear we've sealed our fate There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity Germinating extinction [13] The people unite when you dose [14] them with fear [15] Relinquish their will, let their objections disappear Crowds galvanized by vapid words [16] and septic slurs [17] SongtexteUtterly transfixed [18] by the fiction of the "greater good" [19] Estranged in this age [20] we set sail to the stars Return to the earth still unaware of who we are [21] We've come too far, we've come too far, we've come too far, it's all I know The darkness didn't die, no, we brought it home [22] I sowed a secret deep in the earth But despite the world it grew I knew all things could be made new All things will be made new [23] A web of wires in our mind Weaves an empire down our spine I fear we've sealed our fate There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity Strange fruit is growing on the vine Beneath a bright synthetic sky I fear we've sealed our fate There's no escape, there's no escape: the new eternity Cross the Great Divide and see Light and Dark collide in me Shake the shroud of secrecy, [24] uproot the grim hegemony [25] The new eternity Aus Songtexte Mania