It's coming to pass
My county's coming apart
The whole thing's becoming
Such a bumbling farce
Was that a pivotal historical moment
We just went stumbling past?
Well, here we are
Dancing in the rumbling dark
So come a little closer
Give me something to grasp
Give me your beautiful crumbling heart
Another disaster, catharsis
Another half-discarded mirage
Another mask slips
I face off with the physical
My head's ringing from the love of the stars
There is too much pretence here
Too much depends on the fragile wages
And the extortionate rents here
We're working every dread day that is given us
Feeling like the person we could be
It really isn't us
Like we're going to buckle underneath the trouble
Like any minute now
Our struggles are going to finish us
And then we smile at all our friends
It's hard
We got our heads down and our hackles up
Our back's against the wall
I can feel you aching
None of this was written in stone
There is nothing we're forbidden to know
And I can feel things changing
Even when I'm weak and I'm breaking
I stand weeping at the train station
'Cause I can see your faces
There is so much peace to be found in people's faces
I saw it roaring
I felt it clawing at my clothes like a grieving friend
It said there are no new beginnings
Until everybody sees
That the old ways need to end
But it's hard to accept that we are all one and the same flesh
Given the rampant divisions between oppressor, complicit and oppressed
But we are though
More empathy
Less greed
And more respect
All I've got to say has already been said
You heard it from yourself
When you were lying in your bed and you couldn't sleep
Thinking, couldn't we be doing things differently?
I'm listening to every little whisper in the distance singing hymns
And I can
I can feel things
Changing
It's hard
We got our heads down and our hackles up
Our back's against the wall
I can feel your heart racing
None of this was written in stone
The currents fast but the river moves slow
And I can feel things changing
Even when I'm weak and I'm breaking
I stand weeping at the train station
'Cause I can see your faces
There is so much peace to be found in people's faces
I love people's faces