Frightened - New Model Army

It’s all out on the streets today but you, you’ve found a place to hide

Too busy with the ratrace, you pass by on the other side

Yours is the face of the brand new Britain with blinkers on your eyes

Find yourself position and cling on for dear life

You’re so frightened, everybody’s so frightened

The papers tell of rape and murder, everything that you want to hear

Bad tidings on the radio — you find a way to name your fear

So you never pick up hitchhikers, never talk to strangers

Believe the world outside your bolted door is evil

You’re so frightened, everybody’s so frightened

You are just a victim of your own bad dreams

While people are the same as we’ve always been

But through the blindness in your eyes

For just one minute I see them shine

Love me.

.

won’t you love me?

But they all turn away

You never fight for anything, you always turn your face away

And you never get involved in trouble let all evil have it’s way

So as the girl screams in the street below, you turn up the television

Perhaps you’ll see it on the news — well it’s nothing to do with you

You’re too frightened, everybody’s so frightened

Why is everybody so frightened?