Second Best

Everyone can see this, but nothing is done

Decades of fighting and nobody's won

Fear is growing on and on

We're watching helpless

There's still no answer, the question stays the same

There's no solution to this sick stupid game

Hate will always prevail and push reason to the back of our minds

Why does this always have to be this way?

(Why does this always have to be this way?)

All of our conscience went astray

(All of our conscience went astray, but it's ourselves that we betray)

We'd like to fight for a new world, although we know we'd never win

We'd like to light fire again, just don't know how to begin

Humanity we once adored, comes off second-best, once more

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Even if we manage to put this on hold

Peace will be once again way oversold

What's left are stone cold hearts, and the fear of constant repetition

No one remembers how this once began

Out of the fire into the frying pan

We'd like to change this once and for all

But it's way too soon for the curtain call

Why does this always have to be this way?

(Why does this always have to be this way?)

All of our conscience went astray

(All of our conscience went astray, but it's ourselves that we betray)

We'd like to fight for a new world, although we know we'd never win

We'd like to light fire again, just don't know how to begin

Humanity we once adored, comes off second-best, once more

♪

Why does this always have to be this way

(Why does this always have to be this way?)

All of our conscience went astray

(All of our conscience went astray, but it's ourselves that we betray)

We'd like to fight for a new world, although we know we'd never win

We'd like to light fire again, just don't know how to begin

Humanity we once adored, comes off second-best, once more