The Light - Bob Catley

Out in the streets, where the rumours flew

The second coming of «you know who»

But still they doubt as they stare at the face to believe

Deep in the woods, long after dark

Falling through the stratosphere, shining like a star

They shoot to kill, for the questions come later, you see

Their god is logic in which nothing is divisible

They stone the fake as he performs another miracle

Lying in the gutter with his life-blood spilling again

Oh, it’s a world growing colder

Life is a twin bladed knife

Oh, every child born a soldier

Fights but is blind to see the light

Beneath the surface lurks a nightmare or two

So dies a whale that broke the golden rule

She trusted man, in return she is torn from the sea

Treasure the loch secretly keeps

Rises from its peaceful primeval depth sleep

Two thousand years to a circus cage tragedy

Are we laboratory torturers of innocence?

Or are we circumstantial victims of our own pretence?

Killers of a world, systematically eaten away

Oh, it’s a world growing colder

Life is a twin bladed knife

Oh, every child born a soldier

Fights but is blind to see the light

Children of night are the dreamers

Carried away on a merciful sleep

Let them slumber on

For tomorrow comes the day

Unwanted life is the reason

Dawn and the gun finds them dead on the streets

Naked in the sun

Now the pain has gone away

But I don’t understand

Why only man

Brings suffering of this kind

Are we so blind

We can’t see the light?

It’s not too late, we could break down the fear

But choose indifference as the end draws near

Not long to wait, the «piece de resistance» is here

Chemical bombs, ashes to dust

Every living creature dies, buildings ain’t touched

It’s not abuse, they were never developed to use

I said a pointless civil war, a terrorist without a cause

It’s been so long that he’s forgotten what he’s fighting for

Everybody screams, only no one’s listening again

Oh, it’s a world growing colder

Life is a twin bladed knife

Oh, every child born a soldier

Fights but is blind to see

Oh, it’s a world on his shoulders

Now better run for your life

Oh, it’s a frightful disclosure

Search in your hearts to see the light

To see the light