i've been waiting for you for the lines to read
for the riddles to solve and the questions that plead
you come with no knowledge from a world that is sick
your ignorance is bliss, it's you that i need

i've seen the world through clouded eyes
it didn't bring me pleasure
i've felt the world, it's clouded now
i want to see it but i'm not sure

until the sun is so bright it turns into stone
until i am awake with nothing but hope
until reading is a luxury
and salvation turned into gold

time means healing and time brings closure
education means learning all that's learned
the earth splits open, cracks and black
rivers roll to the sky, no traveling back

it's all about religion and all about god
it's the world you left behind, the death of your god
almost everything is known and said
why would we bother to walk the same old way?

until the sun is so bright it turns into stone
until i am awake with nothing but hope
until reading is all that is left
and salvation turned into gold
relative past