As I contemplate A world of love and hate Of man against man I wonder if this could be the end Of a planet in decay Is mankind to blame For abusing our freedoms And grafting the root of all evil Oh! Money, power, or animal desire Ego, hatred, some say we're all born wicked Lazy, crazy in acts of desperation Is greed the creed of a bankrupt nation We're all looking for a paradise In the arms of a god But we're living in the paradigm Of a lightning rod In our epitaph who will have the last laugh As our bones turn to dust and our apples ripen to a red rust We lived what we believed Our faith too blind to see Gave away all our freedoms And there lies the root of all evil Root of all evil Root of all evil Envy, anger, depravities of hunger Pride, vain glory, all tell the human story Murder for hire Of these tales we never tire We sold our souls for eternal fire Ah Ooh In our epitaph who will have the last laugh As our bones turn to dust and our apples ripen to a red rust We lived what we believed Our faith too blind to see Gave away all our freedoms And there lies the root of all evil Root of all evil Root of all evil