I was promised the world
I was promised great wonders
I was promised it would be like a
Magic carpet ride

I was given new hopes
I was given empty memories
I was shown a plastic dream in which
My fears could hide

A whole new world
A whole new disillusioned scene
They dragged me way up high
On a pillar in the sky
And now I’m falling off of it again

Now I see the new world
Babies still dying from hunger
Crack ****** singing down under all those
Covered bridges downtown

We are left in this world
Choking on our own protests
They wiped their hands of the blood as they say
“It’s your problem now”

A whole new world
A whole new mountain to carry
We put them way up high
On pillars in the sky
And now they’re free of the mess they left down here