it s been a long and amazing time how it s wasted is such a crime and the stories we heard still echo in the distance filled with promises and pain we had everything to gain but the pride that comes before a fall is with us lights are on and nobody s home we ve gone from color to monochrome like some faded photograph with ghostly faces whether enemy or a friend it s the message that we send we will never change without until we change within chorus back when the world was so young to the day when the first song was sung we chose our own way to black white or gray when the world was young are we learning from the past or has it all been already cast who can change the course of a war against all reason there was one prevailing wind and we said we ve got to make a stand and now the barrier s between us for a treason