Impurity

You walk the thinnest of the ice, so easy to hurt
We drove through the dark in the pouring rain and barely said a word
So dress your wounds as best you can and close your tired eyes
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Chorus: We scream, you run - fall out You scream and we're gone - falling out There must have been times in the smoke and the beat on the dance-floor When all of the doors, they were opening for you There must have been times when you thought you were kings of the whole world With the chemicals eating away at your reason But now you're shut down, closed in We build our own little jails I've had to watch this thing so many times Another little death of innocence Chorus: Now, we scream, you run - fall out You scream and we're gone - falling out None of us saw the clever image you hold of yourselves The things that you thought were so cool were just a joke to everyone else Didn't they tell you when you pulled a stupid expression That when the wind changed you'd be stuck with it forever? And now you're shut down, closed in, with all the money you owe I've had to watch this thing so many times Another little death of innocence Chorus: We scream, you run - fall out You scream and we're gone - falling out
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The rains move in eastwards, in waves of succession
Drawing lines of grey across the sky
With history just as close as a hand on the shoulder
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I felt a shiver in the heat-haze and the waiting time is over
Strange tongues on the airwaves as the voices call from distant lands
I saw which was the winning side but still I joined the other
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They found us in the courtyard at our table in the shade
We toasted our last few moments and then the end came
They took us back to the airstrip in that beaten up old car
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Stevie said now don't look round they're watching us
Two girls in the corner of that dodgy club
And the grey eyes, the storm that I've come to know and wish for
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One swallow never made a spring You can buy a crown - it doesn't make you king Beware the trinkets that we bring When the visionary dreams set hard and grey as flesh made into stone You tore the statues to the ground crying - let my people go And now they're gone, all is gone But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile The freedom passion and the two faced call They dance together upon the wall With nothing left to break the fall Now twenty-five miles north in the great dark woods The college buildings stand And the ghosts of hope walk silent halls at the death of the Promised Land All is gone, all is gone But these changing winds can turn cold and hostile And in the shadows of the crowded square, a thousand paper deals go down And hungry sharks from everywhere smell the blood and head for town Innocence starts to peel away - How money changes everything The past it eats the future up and this blind desire eats everything Now the rats they leave one stricken ship for another sailing past Your world was going nowhere slow while ours goes nowhere fast And now it's gone, all is gone
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I'll teach you everything that I know now, Eddie If you really want to take the time But don't expect to get answers to anything, Eddie There is just one thing I've learned Through everything that I've done and tried Everything I have justified It's all vanity, all vanity - we try to have control It's all vanity, all vanity 'cause Chaos rules it all I always drive like a madman, Eddie But you'll soon get used to that I believe if you're moving fast enough, Eddie You don't ever have to watch your back I choose solid ground to make my stands I stay off the streets at closing time It's all vanity, all vanity - we try to have control It's all vanity, all vanity 'cause Chaos rules it all Remember how it was out at Bunglass We climbed up to the peak and stood against the rocks The photographs came - you couldn't see us We were lost against the mountains like specks of dust And the mirror never lies, it's just these foolish eyes And we all see what we want to see What we need to see, what we have to see And so will you do just the same one day, Eddie I've been to that place a thousand times Looked over the edge so many times Wanted to jump a thousand times Well we talk about saving the world now, Eddie It's our vanity gone mad She'll survive us all perfectly well When we're all long buried and dead Clever monkeys with technology Barely out of the caves and the trees It's all vanity, all vanity - we try to have control It's all vanity, all vanity 'cause Chaos rules it all Eddie now let it go . . . I turn my head away from here Down towards the rolling seas again I kneel and worship where I can The ground comes swirling up and through these veins . . .
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