Mother of us all Place of our birth We all are witness To the rape of the world How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the wold This the beginning of the end This the most heinous of crimes This the deadliest of sins

In the blackness of the night I seem to wander endlessly With a hope burning out deep inside I'm a fugitive, community has driven me out For this bad, bad world I'm beginning to doubt I'm alone and there is no one by my side I see a shadow passing by

I don't believe, I think I'm falling asleep Is this beginning or ending? Am I stuck in a dream? I don't wanna know what I think, I suppose Out of the light into this timely demise And there's a cross on the hill, the holy image of lies I've opened my

How can we go back to the beginning? I need your love And I'm dying for the rush 'Cause my heart ain't got enough I need your touch This is getting serious Tell me that it's not the end of us Without you, I’ve got no air to breathe in I've been sick and

(Hold on, I am still alive) this is not the end of me, this is the beginning This is not the end of me, this is the beginning Hold on, hold on 'Cause I have been where you are before And I have felt the pain of losing who you are And I have died so many

Till they set you free I don't want to see you, yeah Is this the end of the beginning? Or the beginning of the end? Losing control or are you winning? Is your life real or just pretend? Reanimation of the sequence Rewinds the future to the past To find