Fading Away

I wrote this tonight while I was driving home, looking at the stars and how they seemed to fade out the closer I got to the city. I guess it's basically about the current state of society...

Hopes so dim
Left behind for dead
Shinning so bright are the disappointments
They’re blinding me down here

Chorus:

Shut off the greed
The murder and the hate
Leave hopeful children
Let them right our wrongs
Put us back where we belong
Cuz there’s no happiness left
To put in melodramatic songs

Step back to the beginning
Rust degrades great minds
Black and blue seem so fitting
This isn’t what was meant to be
We’ve only got one life
Please can’t you see?

Looking at the world
Like it is a still framed photo
It falls to standards through the glass window
I see lonely souls and broken hearts
Swollen dreams and dented metal
What do we expect without change?