your words strike my ears like raging thunder

the scarce change you speak threatens my world

you speak of problems that i've never read

atrocities never spoken on the news at ten

so i contently listen to thoughts you express

of our past lies and forgetten regrets

"when will we ever learn?", you vocalize under fire

in tones like battle cries across battlefields

pounding your fist against the wall

wish i'd known more than i was raised to believe

the truth is out there beyond the lines

and it's on our lives to find the reality

of our televised truth lives