Turned and tossed in this widening flight
And I can't find my bearings
The voice that called me once is lost
And the silence left is tearing at me Everything's starting to fall apart
The center cannot hold
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed upon us
And innocence is drowning All around the best of men are lacking in conviction
While the wicked and the worst are full of pa**ion and intent All we have is falling apart
The center cannot hold
The blood-dimmed tide has covered us
And the innocent are drowning Surely there's some revelation coming close at hand - A second coming
I can barely mouth the words before the images a**ault me
Somewhere in the desert, a monstrous affront turns its pitiless gaze to me Its blinding stare is like the sun
I turn my eyes and fight to shake it but it's frozen in my mind
The darkness drops again, but now I know
Twenty centuries of sleep have been shaken to a nightmare [2x:]
What rough beast, its hour come 'round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem, waiting to be born?All we have has fallen apart
The center could not hold
The blood-dimmed tide was loosed
And the innocent have drowned