City on Fire

They set the city on fire
Craving to kill its pride
Their faith was wrapped in barbed wire
They took a morning flight
And rewrote the chronicle of mankind
Believing by noon they will be divine
I wonder how it feels to be sacrificed
On prime time

Their anger was walking a wire
More than a thousand feet
Above the swarming of an empire
Above the narrow streets
In the land of the free, the home of the brave
Where yellow cabs crawl in a parallel maze
That day they were part of the cast
In a dreadful play

In the land of the free, the home of the brave
Where yellow cabs crawl in a parallel maze
That day they were part of the cast
In a dreadful play

The age of vicious hatred is here
Our blood is running cold
Mock justice is toying with fear
Its scales are measuring gold
The city's burning to remind us all
We are completely out of control
A milestone of horror on this anxious earth
The day we lost our soul"