Written by: Doug Scharley
Lyrics © D. R. Scharley Consulting Inc.


Walking through the carnage
In the aftermath
The summer’s latest rampage
Brings another bloodbath

Men and women’s bodies
Lying on the ground
Humanity has vanished
It’s nowhere to be found

How can someone’s soul
Be filled with that much hate
To drive them to slaughter
And annihilate?

(Chorus)
Our capacity for evil
Is a shocking fact
That’s part of our history
It goes all the way back
We cannot seem to stop it
It’s with us to stay
Buried deep inside
Of our DNA


A lone gunman shooting
From a hotel room
A suicide bomber
About to go boom

What are they thinking
Just before they kill?
What’s the evil force
That gives them the will?

Did they have a fuse
That was always lit?
Or was it something else
That we won’t admit?

(Chorus)
Our capacity for evil
Is a shocking fact
That’s part of our history
It goes all the way back
We cannot seem to stop it
It’s with us to stay
Buried deep inside
Of our DNA


Hitler, Joseph Stalin
And Idi Amin
Evil on a scale
That we’ve never seen

How does a young boy
End up this way?
And who will be the next
To threaten doomsday?

So what are the odds
That evil lurks in you?
And just what would it take
To make it break through?

(Chorus)
Our capacity for evil
Is a shocking fact
That’s part of our history
It goes all the way back
We cannot seem to stop it
It’s with us to stay
Buried deep inside
Of our DNA








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