Wither

Forward he marches through scornful laughter
 Undaunted eyes set on hopes of here after
 A gauntlet of piercing stares line his way
 And condemning glares say all hate can say
 As he strides ever on steps
 In time with his hearts rhythm and rhyme
 To the end of his day
 Forever seductive smile shatters sense
 And bids him acquiesce from this solitary life
 But we don't see
 We've made ourselves blind
 And we don't care
 We've closed our minds
 And we don't move
 We're so paralyzed
 And we, we sit in heartlessness
 Watching him die
 And we don't see
 We've made ourselves blind
 And we don't care
 We've closed our minds
 And we don't move
 We're so paralyzed
 And we, we sit in heartlessness
 Watching him die
 Dead to immunity, dead to society
 Fearing the slow decay of dignity
 The poster child for walking dead men
 Longs for the now to be way back when
 As he strides ever on steps
 In time with his hearts rhythm and rhyme
 To the end of his day
 Forever seductive smile shatters sense
 And bids him acquiesce from this solitary life
 But we don't see
 We've made ourselves blind
 And we don't care
 We've closed our minds
 And we don't move
 We're so paralyzed
 And we, we sit in heartlessness
 Watching him die
 And we don't see
 We've made ourselves blind
 And we don't care
 We've closed our minds
 And we don't move
 We're so paralyzed
 And we, we sit in heartlessness
 Watching him die
 And I see him everyday along his road
 Fading away manifest in the downcast
 Recluse and outcast lepers of this age
 The innocent in cage by paranoid, misinformed minds
 Enter the champions of love so called singing loud
 Grinning as they spit out their words, so proud
 Hearts unmoved by songs and ideals?
 Wading through the rhetoric to clutch something real
 Don't see
 We've made ourselves blind
 Don't care
 We've closed our minds
 Don't move
 We're so paralyzed
 We sit in heartlessness
 Watching him die
 Don't see
 We've made ourselves blind
 Don't care
 We've closed our minds
 Don't move
 We're so paralyzed
 We sit in heartlessness
 Watching him die