While gulls fly through the still darkened sky
A thousand miles away a bird of another kind begins to fly
Morning light casts over the land of the rising sun
50 million dead but the reapers work is not yet done

Awake with the dawn and go to pray
Our emperor will see us prosper another day
Serenity passing from earth to sea
How were they to know what was to be?

A single black bird flies through the sky
The world's fate changing in the bling of an eye
Genocide committed with blood free hands
Beginning chapters of the end of man

Out the window I see it passing by
A single war plane drifts on high
From it I watch as something falls
I hear one last time the siren's call

10,000 lives that could have been
Washed away in a blue white gleam
10,000 tomorrows never seen
Arbitrary revenge no longer a dream

Why can't they hear them?
They're speaking but the words won't come
The sounds of silence
They're baking in the blackened sun

Why won't they listen?
We're screaming at the top of our lungs
Our eyes are blinded
The message from above has come

Copyright: Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Writer(s): Brian Gustavson, Gordon Adam Mitchell, Jason Toppings, Mitchell Allen, Zachary Batalden