Closer To an Animal

Album: The Ninth Hour (2016)
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  • I am a man
    You fell down from that apple tree
    The other day with me

    We had already forgotten
    We one day crawled up
    From the sea

    Imagine now
    If we one day could build
    A flying contraption and see the world

    What if we could somehow
    Store knowledge in a cloud
    Draw a smiling face on the moon
    Find the meaning of life

    Riding the crest of our time
    With bravado, soon complete
    Will we see a new one rise behind us
    A new chance, a new world

    Our wave
    It's about to break
    And we're about to dive in the void
    It echoes our fall
    Our paean to avarice

    I think we're closer to an animal
    Every day, till we fall

    Can you believe
    We have all those eyes high in the sky
    And we can now see the world

    One thing truly makes me blind
    The wisdom of hindsight
    The eye in my own hand

    Riding the crest of our time
    With bravado, soon complete
    Will we see a new one rise behind us
    A new chance, a new world

    I think I'm closer to an animal
    Every day, till I fall

    If you want it all
    You can have it all
    But greed raises oceans too

    When the glacier of
    Our broken dreams
    Melts in your champagne glass

    Someone knocks on your door
    Four times
    Sand in your hour glass

    Every grain is a day falling
    Finding it's rightful place

    If you want it all
    You can have it all
    But greed raises oceans too

    When the glacier of
    Your broken dreams
    Melts in your champagne glass

    Do we need it all
    We can have it all
    Our greed will raise oceans soon

    And the glacier of
    Our human dream
    Gone with the champagne glass
    In the sea

    "I am a man
    In the grand scheme of things
    Only minutes have passed
    Since I crawled up from the sea
    But already
    I've built a flying contraption
    And seen the world
    I've drawn a smiley face on the moon
    And stored knowledge in a cloud
    ...What a wonderful gift our mind is
    But why am I using it
    To destroy this beautiful planet
    My only home
    If it defines me, if it makes me a human
    I need to get closer to my inner animal" Writer/s: ELIAS VILJANEN, HENRIK KLINGENBERG, PASI KAUPPINEN, TOMMY PORTIMO, TONI KAKKO
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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