Science keeps growing ahead of society Revolutions and breakthroughs answer some of the mysteries of life Searching for a better understanding of how the clock ticks Creates an age ominous salvation Decode the gene, conduct a recipe for life Traits to select, prescribed birth Endeavor of a cruel past accepted as a road to knowledge Yet history's attempts condemned as sadistic The present's work awarded as heroic I see no difference, it is still breeding the perfect seed It's still trying to play god, tampering with destiny Defying the path that we call life Prolonging an existence, time ceases in a frozen cell Cryogenic slumber, to rise again upon a cure Man is not deserving immortality You live and then you die Stop trying to rewrite the book Days have arrived for balancing the furies Be grateful for the span given to grace the earth Embrace mortality Reject the thirst for infinity Fate becomes obsolete Technology devours sense Child is born with no preoccupation Yet another way to feed human greed There lies a price for every breath taken past the bell's toll Gifts of the earth raped of purity Genetic alteration to the kin of a natural seed Convictions irrationally adamant A race with no future, awarded with obscurity Lands afar feel they have the need To employ natural selection The matriarch shall only conceive Another tool to heave the gears Contribute to productivity Days have arriving for balancing the furies Accept the times given to grace this existence Embrace the fact, life's not meant to be eternally The mysteries are crystal clear You live and then you die Stop trying to rewrite the book