What For

Imagine walking down the street on an average day

The suns out, and a warm breeze blows your way

You witness children play as you walk towards the store, you just need to

Finish a quick chore

So many feet rapidly beat across the concrete floor

You soon approach the market door, but suddenly you feel a searing fire

Melt your skin

And then you hear a pop so loud that a roaring sound pierces into your

Brain

Never in your life have you felt such pain

You couldnt fathom what is going on

You look around you but your world is gone

Never did such chaos encompass your existence

Smoke and fire fill the air

Everywhere the floor is stained in blood from severed limbs

So many dead lay all around you

You look to the sky and wonder how such horror found you

And why someone would kill such innocent people the reality astounds you

Then you try to get up but the ground bounds you

You lift your head to find your legs are gone

And the rest of your body is so damaged you wonder how youre holding on

And you soon realize you never may have love again

And to your family and friends youll never get to say goodbye

So you start to cry as you die on this cold hard ground

The piercing ringing of your vanishing hopes and dreams will be the last

Sound

As you take your final breaths the sharpest pain emanates from your core

And you Ask

What For?

(Melodic Interlude)

Chorus

Why are we killing so many people?

Every day the news is the same nightmare but a sequel

We are all Equal

But who of us want to see it?

Religions tell us to be good but who of us want to be it?

Am I the only one that sees it?

That these wars cannot bring peace

That the subjugation of an entire nation to war only creates oppression and

Oppression

Has been historically proven

To only bring more war

So as we continue to kill each other I ask What For?

Verse Two

It’s written within the Koran do not kill disbelievers, Let them be, and

Coexist in Peace

Jesus said love your enemies and its written within t he Torah that thou

Shall not kill

Then why in the name of religion does so much innocent blood spill?

What must it be, is religions misinterpretation the key?

Because I hope we see it’s religions that were created to decree

Peaceful notions to help bring unity,

Not more conflict that will never set us free

Creating and repeating more and more negativity

If we just open our eyes we will see

The Destruction that has been havocked from city to city

So many dead as though it seem this bloodshed is endless

How can it not be evident taking peoples loved ones is senseless

Taking peoples Right to Live, Right to Love

And enforcing belief systems through violence

Trying to force people into silence

Will only breed hatred and oppression

And without the proper treatment and rights people will organize fights to

Live in freedom

Rather than die in oppression

Therefore the Blood we spill will quickly spark into more war

And is that really what religion is for?

A never ending cycle of war?

Or is there something more?

Are religions struggles really never ending struggles through death?

Or are they Productive battles of the mind?

Struggles to spread knowledge and wisdom for that is the only way we will

Not fall behind

That is the only interpretation of religion that can bring peace

And as said before Religions were created to bring peace not war

So as we continue to kill each other I ask What For?

(Chorus Repeat)

Third Verse

From Syria to Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Turkey and So many more

Oppressive governments have repeatedly cause uprisings and war

So I ask What For?

Are we going to continue to ignore history?

Because we keep on repeating the past and thats no mystery

So I want to say this to be, Crystal Clear

History has shown people will revolt from tactics based upon Fear

People would rather die fighting for Freedom

Than live under Oppression

So governments must stop the aggression and either be for the people

By the people, or Be Gone

Because we need a helpful caring government for us all to get along

And governments; should helping people be wrong?

Dont you all want to feel like your efforts have made a difference?

Instead of spending your whole lives repeating the same problems that have

Been there since your birth

Dont you all want to feel like something has actually changed since you

Entered this earth?

Because that is exactly what you will feel when you choose to help people

Out

And the great rate of infinitesimal change that will arise from it will

Prove to you what life is all about

But there is no doubt

That without change every one of you oppressive governments will continue

To fall

And these senseless battles will continue to re-upload and install

So let us unite and stop these senseless wars for us all

Before anymore die

Before hundreds of thousands more lives are wasted

Wasted upon thousands of building and streets

Wasted Fighting over Power and Greed

Wasted fighting back tears

Wasted in hatred

Wasted in misinterpreted religion

Wasted not making a difference

And Wasted In Oppression

So let us Stop the Aggression before we repeat the same mistakes anymore

And ask Ourselves

What For?