How Many Times? - Serj Tankian

How many times must we die

And how many times must we live

Why must the truth be denied

When will the truth be revealed

How many times must we learn

And how many times must we fall

How many times must we burn

For us to be one and all

You tell me that you’re home again

The sun will wake up the sky

With feelings of love

How many times must we kill

And how many times must we win

When will the earth just stand still

So we can stop murdering our kin

You tell me that you’re home again

The sun will wake up the sky

Why must we be born again

To revel in your light

With feelings of love

God waved us goodbye

To learn to love and to die

Death screams goodbye

We belong to the night

You prophesized all of this

From Belfast to Soweto

We canonized all profits

From Gaza to the ghettos

Injustice, we’re the witness

To the dreamless and the hopeless

Forgiveness for the witness

In this callous prognosis

God waved us goodbye

To learn to love and to die

Death screams goodbye

We belong

God waved us goodbye

To learn to love and to die

Death screams goodbye

We belong to the night

How many times must we die

And how many times must we live