In these times that we're living in we are hopeless until we begin To realize that we're deeply tangled in the lies keep our lives strangled They would have us believe the nation is for justice, is for transformation When the truth is blood-stained gold is power, these false prophets steal the lives that are ours Chorus: And the war outside is a mirror of what's within Every word that breaks a heart, all the loveless patterns we live in Repeat Oh the war within The War within becomes the war outside It's our duty as human beings to enlighten what we think we're seeing Cause in all of us are the roots of the fighting, you and I are doing the writing Of this tragedy: our world's destruction, World War III, at its introduction Individual negativity becomes collective, manifests what we see Chorus