We are lost
 |
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear… I’m feeling such a heartache at the state of the world… do you know what I mean?
Every day there’s something that makes me want to weep… Nasty white men in suits scrabbling for power, injustice, divisions, refugees in rubber dinghies, troops of young men sent to fight civilians, the broken dam in Minas Gerais, billions of lonely masses, #suicide, the stabbing of the mayor of Gdansk... Every day, every single day there’s something to cry your eyes out for, it just goes on and on…
We’re all here on borrowed time and what on earth are we doing with it??
As a species we are truly fucked… we are lost.
This song by The Unthanks makes me feel it so much… the following version is shortened but the wee mice in the video just break my heart…
All lyrics follow below the video. |
LAST
We
are lost
We are lost
We are lost
On and on and on we go
But back and back and back we go
The wisdom thrown out long ago
The great unlearning has begun
And we are lost
Time will pass and soon we'll know
What sons and daughters have to show
For all our speed and all our waste
Do you have a nasty taste?
The frightened people still believe
In gods and heroes and pure blood
The blood still flows and mums still lose
Their sons and daughters in the fields
The fields will soon be under seas
Continue doing as you please
But we won't last
We won't last
We won't last
We are lost
We are lost
On and on and on we go
But back and back and back we go
The wisdom thrown out long ago
The great unlearning has begun
And we are lost
Time will pass and soon we'll know
What sons and daughters have to show
For all our speed and all our waste
Do you have a nasty taste?
The frightened people still believe
In gods and heroes and pure blood
The blood still flows and mums still lose
Their sons and daughters in the fields
The fields will soon be under seas
Continue doing as you please
But we won't last
We won't last
We won't last
The girl from 22 is lonely
The boy from 23 is lonely
The girl from 24 is lonely
The girl from 22's moved out
She's moved into another town
She'll move into another street
Another street where she won't meet
The boy from 23, who's lovely
The boy from 23 is lovely
Cause we are last
The past is gone, we don't deny
Cold and cruel without a lie
But failure is a victory
If from it we all get to see
That we are lost
We won't last
Remember the past
And we might last
Remember the past
Man should be the sum of his story
Man should be the sum of his story
Man should be the sum of his story
The boy from 23 is lonely
The girl from 24 is lonely
The girl from 22's moved out
She's moved into another town
She'll move into another street
Another street where she won't meet
The boy from 23, who's lovely
The boy from 23 is lovely
Cause we are last
The past is gone, we don't deny
Cold and cruel without a lie
But failure is a victory
If from it we all get to see
That we are lost
We won't last
Remember the past
And we might last
Remember the past
Man should be the sum of his story
Man should be the sum of his story
Man should be the sum of his story
(lyrics and music by Adrian McNally)
Comments
Post a Comment