And do you know what a minor chord can do
Daddy left and he won't be home any time soon
Black woman said I was a paediatrician before the war
And the poets leave their vapour behind in a room
My friend's a liar and so is God
Open your lives and bring em all in
They're all leaving home on a slavery ship
Hey little buddy dream harder when your dreams are thin
The Olympic truce don't work around here
And your own thoughts are just about all you got
When your pilot light is low burn a prayer
Tell the world love can hide but hate cannot
Like poets – we leave vapour behind in a room
Like poets – we leave vapour behind in a room
Like a dog on a stage you stare at those in tears
Man begs with man let me lay down a while
Tender beauty bites down hard on her lip
Woman holds to her breast the motherless child
Painter paints the night what else can he do
She swings her beautiful body like a dirty Monroe
The bakers bake and the bare knuckles fight
Let your dignity be the last thing that you let go
And the singers are holding hands currency of the world
It's harder to teach em to love than to teach em to fight
And are these the names we must write in water
It's a beautiful requiem sung in the dark for the light
Like poets – we leave vapour behind in a room
Like poets – we leave vapour behind in a room