[See the cemetery sky   Carmine red and deep   Watch the oceans rising high   It’s the human stain]      Talk about the growing hunger   Ask why with deep concern   Don’t you think   the human race is ceaselessly vain      But it hurts to be alive, my friend   In this silent tide we're driftwood passing by   Don’t you wish you were a child again   Just for a minute   just for a minute more      Hear the ticking of a clock   The sound of life itself   No one really wants to die   To save the world      Tell me that you're torn asunder   From how we fail to learn   And tell me   as the earth goes under   Where’s your anger now      So it hurts to be alive, my friend   In this masquerade where all one day must die   Don’t you wish you were unborn again   Just for a minute   just for a minute more      Tic toc   The ticking that could tear asunder   The beating from a heart of stone   The lust of your divine prosperity      'Cause it costs to be alive, my friend   And this life that someone merely gave to you   That's the price you pay   Minute by minute   You beg for a minute more