I’ve somehow always known this feeling
And it left me reeling 
When you told me that I was crazy
And it didn’t faze me 
But I decided to get a second opinion 
So I fled to the city
Let them assess every little bit of me 
And admit me to Stella Ward
It was as though someone crucified the bird 
That had been singing within me 
And they try to begin me 
With a meal of chicken and gruel 
And I walked into a room, the floor smelt like school
I dunno if it was the plastic floor 
Or the way they paint the exit door 
But it just reminded me of being three
And terrified of what they had in store for me 
And as the years advanced
I learned that I don’t have to dance
If I don’t want to 
But I was always compelled by you 
To act as the role provides
It’s as though I’m not even alive
But just a cartoon cutout or a silhouette
And somehow I have managed not to forget
Just who I am 
All these years under the plan 
That aims to rob us of humanity
And it did its best to take it from me
With pills and booze
With the winning and the knowing how to lose
Somehow in the middle of the sea
I realised it wasn’t for me 
And that there is another way to live
That I could forgive
All that had been done 
In my name by everyone 
And I just watch on a screen 
How the children scream 
And cry over a parent murdered from the sky
Unprepared and forced to die
To depart the form 
Now babies clutch bodies no longer warm 
And the saltwater flows from their eyes
While we just say, my, how time flies
As we get old and grey 
And pray
That we’ll have a safe departure
In Gaza they mourn the martyr 
Under a mountain of rubble 
We have known the same trouble 
On our island 
It’s on file and 
Making someone rich somewhere 
As they wonder do we care 
About the force of might 
And like every candlelight 
The dark departs 
When it sees what is burning in your heart 
I see a kind of constant flame 
Just whisper it when they call your name 
And as you step to the stage
Let love be your kind of rage 

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