Ancient mountains sleep below the gentle sway of pines Where ancient traumas linger in the murky mists of time Where some men claim to carry on a lost, alluring cause Their better angels ever led astray By nature's darker laws See the man, from humble home he goes to work each day Until he's told a stranger soon will take his job away The sun goes down, and in his heart a quiet anger gnaws In his veins there runs the quickened blood Of nature's darker laws You must go on, our Father said, Your faith will see you through And all day long he trudges on, he wants it to be true But when he hears the demagogue, the rapturous applause He's found the voice that fills the emptiness With nature's darker laws On every screen the fear and blame is all that he can see The nightly news, it shows him how to see his enemy The radio, it feeds the lies the grievances because There's money to be made by tapping in To nature's darker laws He holds a gun and feels he's in control for the first time His captain yells that fighting for your country is no crime He joins the crowd and holds a flag that stands for what once was In violence he's found a brotherhood Through nature's darker laws ♪ Ancient mountains sleep below the gentle sway of pines Where ancient traumas linger in the murky mists of time Where some men claim to carry on a lost, alluring cause Their better angels ever led astray By nature's darker laws By nature's darker laws