a garden, a peace, a river of purity
a man
a woman
a dream. a scheming snake
we're forced awake
and we partake

we build a dam
'cause we think we can
somehow
keep the river to ourselves

but comes the flood
our children's blood
scattered
as if they never mattered

the one we call God said,
"Never again!" and then
He almost let us in
 
but the tower fell
leaving us closer to hell
than we ever got to heaven

chapter eleven

bankrupt

we start again