Gotta Stop the Cycle

A train heads to Auschwitz
With prisoners
Sentenced to be stripped of their humanity
With soldiers
Singing of the glory of Germany
Riding along to their own damnation

A broken home
It doesn't matter why
Ambition
Alcohol
Anger
It doesn't matter which
The child gets lost
Can't see the sun
For that big bitter cloud
Bad things happen
More misfortune means more shame
More shame means more blame
More bitterness

Something's gotta change
Gotta break the cycle

A man out in the streets
Running from his father
Full of spite
And self-sufficiency
He took what was his
And left
Now it's all gone
And his wounded pride
Is angry as hell
Now he's desperate
And he does desperate things
And hates everyone with more than him
And he's high on anything that'll make him forget
That unbearable shame

Something's gotta change
Gotta break the cycle
Gotta stop that train

Some idiot
Decides to make a buck
Off exploitation and injustice
Then some more people do it
They say it's more efficient
They'll be out of business otherwise
Then everyone's doing it
And it's just the way it is

Something's gotta change
Gotta break the cycle
Gotta stop that train

A little boy grows up
With the accumulated sins
Of human history
Blotting out the sun
Pride
War
Nonsense
Greed
Envy
All of it
Every little bit
There's nothing really wrong with him
Except for everything

Something's gotta change
Gotta break the cycle
Gotta stop that train

Falling into the nothing
The endless noise
The final despair
Everything
Falling
Falling
Into the pit

Gotta jump into the grinder
Jam up the machine
Gotta run into the middle of it
Do something crazy
Change the equation
Gotta make something new

That's why He came
The Nazarene
The Man out on the tracks
Digging in His heels
Waiting for the train
He came to make something new
To bring in the light
To interrupt the routine
To the stop the cycle