The Great Debate lyrics

Artist  : Dream Theater 
Song : The Great Debate
 


What if someone said
Promise lies
ahead
Hopes are high in certain scientific
circles
Life won't have to end
You could
walk again

What if someone
said
Problems lie ahead
They've uncovered
something highly controversial
The right to
life is strong
Can't you see it's
wrong

Human kind has reached a turning
point
Poised for conflict at ground
zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our
unearthly guide
Or to white coat
heroes
Searching for a cure

Turn to the
light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it
creates
Turn to the light
Turning away
would be a terrible mistake

Anarchistic
moral vision
Industries of death
Facing
violent opposition
Unmolested
breaths

Ethic inquisitions
breed
Antagonistic views
Right wing sound
bite premonitions
In a labyrinth of
rules

Are you justified
Are you
justified
Are you justified
Justified in
taking
Life to save life
Life to save
life
Taking life to save life

This
embryonic clay
Wrapped in fierce
debate
Would be thrown away
Or otherwise
discarded

Some of us believe
It may
hold the key
To treatment of disease
And
secrets highly guarded

Are you
justified
Are you justified
Are you
justified
Justified in taking
Life to save
life
Life to save life
Life to save
life

Human kind has reached a turning
point
Poised for conflict at ground
zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our
unearthly guide
Or to white coat
heroes
Searching for the cure

Turn to
the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows
it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away
would be a terrible mistake

We're
reaching
But have we gone too
far

Harvesting existence
Only to
destroy
Carelessly together
We are
sliding

Someone else's future
Four days
frozen still
Someone else's fate
We are
deciding

Miracle potential
Sanctity of
life
Faced against each other
We're
divided

Should we push the
boundaries
Or should we condemn
Moral guilt
and science
Have collided

Turn to the
light
We defy our own mortality these
days
Turn to the light
Pay attention to the
questions we have raised