Standard (EADGBE)

 Striking at mental apparitions

Like a drunk on a vacant street

Silently beset by the hands of time

 Indelicate in its fury

An aberrant crack as skeletons yield

 To unrelenting gravity

While viruses prowl for helpless victims

 Who succumb rapidly

 (Tell me!) Tell me; where is the love?

 In a careless creation

 When there’s no “above”

 There’s no justice

 Just a cause and a cure

 And a bounty of suffering

 It seems we all endure

 And what I’m frightened of

 Is that they call it “God’s love”

Twisted torment, make-believe

 There’s a truth and we all submit

 “Believe my eyes,” my brain complies

 To all that they interpret

 (Tell me!) Tell me; where is the love?

 In a careless creation

 When there’s no “above”

 There’s no justice

 Just a cause and a cure

 And a bounty of suffering

 It seems we all endure

 And what I’m frightened of

 Is that they call it “God’s love”

I know there’s no reason for alarm

But who needs perspective when it comes to pain and harm

We can change our minds; there’s a better prize

But first you’ve got to

 (Tell me!) Tell me; where is the love?

 In a careless creation

 When there’s no “above”

 There’s no justice

 Just a cause and a cure

 And a bounty of suffering

 It seems we all endure

 And what I’m frightened of

 Is that they call it “God’s love”

 They call it God’s love

 My pain is God’s love