Reap What You Sow Lyrics

It's been said you reap what you sow
And now we see it everyday on the news
It seems we are only ever seconds away
From another disaster brought on by ourselves
We build cities right on top of fault lines
Loan more money than can ever be repaid
We use weapons of war to remove leaders
All the while it's the innocent who pay

Reap what you sow, legacy of mankind
Reap what you sow, written in our history
Reap what you sow, it happens time and time again
Reap what you sow, it is the human way

We sell alcohol to alcoholics
We sell pharmaceuticals to drug addicts
We let murderers purchase guns to kill with
We allow our youth to consume endless violence
We draw power from nuclear reactions
That we do not even fully understand
We smash atoms to discover particles
That we cannot reliably predict

Reap what you sow, legacy of mankind
Reap what you sow, written in our history
Reap what you sow, it happens time and time again
Reap what you sow, it is the human way

The problem with all of this is the innocent who suffer
For the wrongs of foolish men who came before them
Planting seeds of destruction and then watching them burn
Acting surprised when house of cards falls down
Could there not be wise ones who lead the way amongst us
Guiding us to a better way of thinking
So that we can learn from history's mistakes
And look to God to find a better way

Are we sowing the destruction of earth
Have our leaders truly not learned a thing
History tells us that they never really learn
And so the cycle will continue again
We just march on further into carnage
It is the only way we have ever been
Let us seek God to find an answer to this mess
And crawl our way out of the mire

Reap what you sow, legacy of mankind
Reap what you sow, written in our history
Reap what you sow, it happens time and time again
Reap what you sow, it is the human way