Tear gas and rubber bullets

We're living life to the fullest

Twenty dead and others wounded

In this mess, we forgot polluted

Young souls wither at the border

Behind the scenes they witness torture

It's deadly, critical, and it's terminal

When was fate ever merciful?

I'm missing in action

I'm lost, in fact my mind is

Sodden with empathy

I'm drowning in the twenty-first century

The twenty-first century

Pray for Paris, Syria, Sudan

Day by day becomes a lifespan

All the inaction, indifference

Soon we'll burn like Icarus

Rapists and fake patriots

Not black or white, just a gradient

How could we ever fix all of this?

Could we ever reach an armistice?

I'm missing in action

(Take mercy from me, have mercy on me)

I'm lost, in fact my mind is

(Take mercy from me, have mercy on me)

Sodden with empathy

(Take mercy from me, have mercy on me)

I'm drowning in the twenty-first century

(Take mercy from me, have mercy on me)

The twenty-first century

I'm missing in action

(Take mercy from me, have mercy on me)

I'm lost, in fact my mind is

(Take mercy from me, have mercy on me)

Sodden with empathy

(Take mercy from me, have mercy on me)

I'm drowning in the twenty-first century

(Have mercy, please)