It's hard to speak the truth With a knife between your teeth It's hard to make the peace with those you hate For while you're spitting insults At another person's back You're planning for another future race's fate The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (2x) History bred a doctrine that time could not ignore And it revealed the gaping holes that lay between An on the other side of this life You say "Hell's never worse than this" But what you say, believe me, time can't heal