Redemption - Slouching Toward Bethlehem lyrics

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