Watching man become a machine 
Used to further someone else’s dream 
With his finger on the trigger 
Coz this thing we have is bigger 
And he fires and the bullet renders holes 
Is this a battle for all of our souls
And I look at him and he looks away 
And I know there’s nothing I can say 
To change his mind 
And he’s already left behind 
What we’d built together 
And September weather 
Is fuelling the flames 
I’m calling him, he’s calling me names 
And we just sit in stony silence then 
Because he can’t make me do it again 
You know the innocent gaze, the eyes askance 
The way I thought we were gonna dance 
With each other til the end of time 
Now we tolerate the worst of the crime 
As it plays out on screens 
And I can hear the screams 
Of a child as she plays 
And I know there are things that he says 
To make it all alright 
Because they’ve got to fight 
To make peace certain 
Can you look into the eyes you’re hurting 
When you make war 
And you swear that you know what it’s for 
But it’s just broken beams of a timber framed house 
And someone taking the words right out of my mouth 
When they think they know what I mean 
Is this just a repeat of what’s always been 
And we swear that we won’t grow 
To be just like them but I know 
In the twenty years that have passed 
I just watch women get harassed 
And then bitter and futile and swinging punches 
Or tied up in knots and out to lunches 
With the girls 
While the world 
Burns 
And they swear it turns 
But for a solitary soul 
A singularity in a black hole