You think we can change the world I say, "can't we end it?" Everyone's asking, "how'd we get here?" Baby, this is where we started If I'd been given the chance to choose Stood with Him at the precipice There's no way in hell I'd say: "Drop me off at Earth, sis" He went into the garden The moon was last to see him And I'd been meaning to call him But yeah, you know how it is Sounds of silence As we all begin to see It's so violent We don't practice what we preach Nothing's ever what you think it is Nothing's ever what it seems And the world just And the world just swallows me whole Oh, and the world just (the world just) Ah hey, and the world just swallows me- Whole, whole, whole yeah And the world just- And the world just swallows me Said the world just swallows us whole