When leaders turn to cowards and fall gutless to bribes. 

When seductions raise the curtains and push virtue aside. 

You can't use ignorance as an alibi anymore. 

We could all bear the world, and fold our dreams to faults.

But when did hope fall short, and force our lines to crawl? 

When the real horror's in mirrors looking back with a smile. 

And arsenals of words used to wreck start to pile. 

You can't use ignorance in your alibi anymore. 

So when hell is at the gates, who will stand and meet the waves 

and take the fight to their graves to end the dark campaign?