Squandered paradise

Humankind has squandered the gifts that mother gave
A world of wealth and plenty led to an early grave
And paths to so-called 'progress' with blood of millions paved

Utopia soon out of reach
As swords grew mightier than the plough
Such promise of superiority
Tell me - where are we now?

Bloodletting a planet and culling our own lives
Caught in the wake of our self-destruction

Hail the glorious humankind – hail!
Hail the splendour of our kind!

Hail the glorious mankind!

Lack of understanding about responsibility
The kind we are so eager to avoid
Evermanipulating - the bringers of war and woe
A travesty within the cosmic scale

Our legacy is fraught with death
Battle-ridden and paid for in blood
True bringers of violence and flame

A tyranny of intellect a vile manifestation
An error of the universe harbingers of damnation
As history repeats itself time upon time
And still we fail to learn

Unworthy of the air we breathe unworthy of our pride
Unworthy of our power so gleefully abused
Our kind stands here accused of squandering it all
We've been weighed and swiftly found unworthy
Weighed and found unworthy of it all

Evermanipulating - the bringers of war and woe
A travesty within the cosmic scale
Squandered paradise