See the cemetery sky
Carmine red and deep
Watch the oceans rising high
It's the human stain
Talk about the growing hunger
Ask why with deep concern
Don't you think the human ways
It sees lessly vain
Kamelot
But it hurts to be alive, my friend
In this silent time with driftwood passing by
Don't you wish you were a child, again
Just for a minute
Just for a minute
Hear the ticking of the clock
The sound of life itself
No one really wants to die
To save the world
Tell me that you told the sender
From how we failed to learn
And tell me has he upheld his anger?
Where's your anger now?
So it hurts to be alive, my friend
In this masquerade where all one day must die
Don't you wish you were unborn, again
Just for a minute
Just for a minute
Tick, tock
The ticking that could tear a sunder
The beating from a heart of stone
The loss of your divine prosperity
'Cause it costs to be alive, my friend
And this life that someone really gave to you
That's the price you pay
Minute by minute
You beg for a minute