We ate our young and never blinked an eye   We carved the subway tunnels and prayed to snipers in the sky   We practiced medicine without knowing how to heal   We killed ourselves in dreams a thousand times, always believing it was real   We gave birth silently to jargon, metal, smoke   And mirrors that we kissed until they clouded up and broke   We fed a starving child with an apple's knowing taste   Denying til her dying tears the poison with which it had been laced      So father kill your daughter   Mother kill your son   Swallow up the universe   Til all the killing's done   It happens when you slumber   It happens unaware   Out of every human eye   A hundred generations stare      If you lose your eyes you will see   And if you lose your faith you will believe   If you lose your blood no more will you bleed   And if you lose all your desires, nevermore will you need   If you lose you light you will glow   And if you lose your mind you will know   If you lose your youth no more will you grow   And if you learn to stand your ground, there'll be nowhere left to go      Come here to mend   What's come before will come again