Lyrics
Verse 1
We once believed the wars would end,
That peace would come, that hearts would mend,
We swore we’d learn from all the pain,
But history called, and we came again.
The banners fade, the lessons rot,
The world moves on, but we forgot,
We trade our souls for screens and gold,
And watch our better selves grow cold.
Chorus
Where did our future go?
Where did our mercy hide?
We built the world on hope,
And left it to divide.
Verse 2
The poets sang of brighter days,
Now silence chokes the things they’d say,
We lost the art of asking why,
And call it strength to not reply.
We sell our dreams for borrowed time,
And call the climb the grand design,
We chase the storm, we fuel the flame,
Then cry when it consumes our name.
Chorus
Where did our future go?
Where did our mercy hide?
We built the world on hope,
And left it to divide.
Verse 3
The children ask what we became,
And all we give them is our shame,
We turned the sky to ash and smoke,
And laughed as fragile empires broke.
We raised our walls, we locked our doors,
Forgot the poor, forgot the wars,
The same old kings still hold the crown,
While the rest of us just bow down.
Chorus
Where did our future go?
Where did our mercy hide?
We built the world on hope,
And left it to divide.
Bridge
We marched for peace, then turned away,
When kindness felt too hard to say,
We built our towers, high and proud,
Then cursed the heavens for the crowd.
We’ve seen the cost in every age,
The greed, the lies, the righteous rage,
We keep on dreaming freedom’s near,
But no one listens, no one hears.
Chorus
Where did our future go?
Where did our mercy hide?
We built the world on hope,
And left it to divide.
Outro
But still the spark in darkness burns,
The heart still fights, the soul still learns,
And maybe when the smoke is gone,
The dawn we lost will still live on.
If love can rise where hate has sown,
If truth can stand when fear has grown,
Then maybe peace will find its home,
And light will guide us back to hope.
