With the sun in your eyes

Always mistaking

The truth from the lies

In the love that you're making

Don't pretend it isn't so



With the sun in your eyes

It always reveals

A voluntary bondage

That always appeals

It's how you make the garden grow



But why this weakness

No-one knows

Our conscience cries his sorrow

While we sleep

But once the morning's dawned

Out the back-door

Silently he creeps



With the sun in your eyes

Always reminding

A sense of excitement

You've no hope of finding

With the chains that bind your feet



Belonging or longing

For a few empty hours

In a strangers bed

To chase away

A fear that's in your head



And why this weakness

No-one knows

The vacant faceless voices

On the phone

Bring words that offer no

Consolation when you're all alone



With the sun in your eyes



Beaten on the brow of history

A union forged in slavery

In all that's hope and decency

A hope for you and a hope for me

For every woman child and man

To those who'll chain you if they can

The babe you're bouncing on your knee

Needs your help now can't you see