Exist - Avenged Sevenfold

Our truth is painted across the sky

In our reflection we learn to fly

No hand to hold us

No one to save us from tomorrow

Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone

Far beyond the dreams of everyone

No light to follow

A shot in the dark

Does anybody know?

Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone

Far beyond the dreams of everyone

High from the heavens

I can’t see the pain

Does anybody care?

Think for a moment of all the lives

Stripped of their essence before their time

We stand to conquer

But is there nothing left tomorrow?

Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone

Far beyond the dreams of everyone

No light to follow

A shot in the dark

Does anybody know?

Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone

Far beyond the dreams of everyone

High from the heavens

I can’t see the pain

Does anybody care?

«We have one collective hope: the Earth;

and yet, uncounted people remain

hopeless

Famine and calamity abound

Sufferers hurl themselves into the arms of war

People kill and get killed in the name of someone else’s concept of God

Do we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief that the world

revolves around us?

Each fabricated conflict, self-murdering bomb, vanished airplane

Every fictionalized dictator, biased or partisan, and wayward son

Are part of the curtains of society’s racial, ethnic, religious,

national and cultural conflicts

And you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers

When I track the orbits of asteroids, comets and planets

Each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet, choreographed by the forces

of gravity

I see beyond the plight of humans

I see a Universe ever-expanding, with its galaxies embedded within the

ever-stretching four-dimensional fabric of space and time

However big our world is, our hearts, our minds, our outsize atlases,

the universe is even bigger

There are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on the world’s beaches

More stars in the Universe than seconds of time that have passed since Earth

formed

More stars than words and sounds ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived

The day we cease the exploration of the cosmos is the day we threaten the

continuing of our species

In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be

prone to act on their low-contracted prejudices, and would have seen the last

gasp of human enlightenment

Until the rise of a visionary new culture that once again embraces the cosmic

perspective: a perspective in which we are one, fitting neither above,

nor below;

but within"