Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors

Listen to me just hear me out, if I could have your attention just quieten down for a voice in the crowd. I get so confused I don't understand I know you feel the same way you've always wanted to say but you don't get the chance, just a voice in the crowd. I don't know the score anymore; it's not clear anymore I can't tell right from wrong anymore; I just don't understand. I was sitting here thinking of exchanging a new world for old like changing channels on the tv, or the dirt we stand in to gold. When I was young, my father told me just the bad guys die at the time just a little white lie it was one of the first but it hurt me the most and the truth stung like tears in my eye that even the good guys must die there's no reasoning no crimes and I never knew why even now it still makes me cry. If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line just a little helping hand just a little understanding just some answers to the questions that surround me now. If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors where nothing here is ever what it seems you stand so close but you never understand it for all that we see is not what it seems, am I blind? And you sit there and talk revolution but can you tell me just who's in command? when you tell me the forces we are fighting then I'll gladly join and make plans but for now only our t-shirts cry freedom and our voices are gagged by our greed our minds are harnessed by knowledge by the hill and the will to succeed and if that's not what you believe would you let me know I'm not standing alone that I'm not just a voice in the crowd If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line just a little helping hand just a little understanding just a little understanding to the questions that I'm asking you If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you I'll keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors where nothing here is ever what it seems I'm scared to shout in case I draw attention from the powers that preside over our minds and our lives when they find what I want is the deadliest weapon, that is truth Day by day it's getting louder and day by day it's getting stronger but when I can't scream no more and I need reassurance, I listen to the crowd. (And the boy stood, and stared at the hill. And the hill stared back)
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I found a new religion yesterday, I'd just cleared immigration JFK
a priest got in a cadillac, the shoe shine boy sang gospel
as God and his accountants drove away.
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[Instrumental 24 secs]

I don't trust the government
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Where beggars take cheques and children steal credit cards
From the pockets of wrecks that lie in the road
I came to in my future that was just yesterday
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Do you still keep paper flowers
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I like to watch

Track down a satellite, beam in the action
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I heard a battle ragin
On the other side of the wall
I buried my head in a pillow and tried to ignore it all
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[Instrumental Introduction 38 Secs]

I've got a reputation, of being a man with a gift of words
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