Listen to me

Just hear me out

If I could have your attention

Just quieten down for a voice in the crowd

I get so confused and I don't understand

I know you feel the same way you've always wanted to say

But you don't get the chance

Just a voice in the crowd



I don't know the score anymore

It's not clear anymore

I can't tell right from wrong anymore

I just don't understand

I was sitting here thinking of exchanging a new world for old

Like changing the channels on TV

Or the dirt that we stand in to gold



When I was young

My father told me just bad guys die

At the time just a little white lie

It was one of the first but it hurt me the most

And the truth stung like tears in my eyes

That even the good guys must die

There's no reasoning no crimes and I never knew why

Even now it still makes me cry



If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

Just a little helping hand, just a little understanding

Just some answers to the questions that surround me now

If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

Just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right

Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

Where nothing here is ever what it seems

You stand so close but you never understand it

For all that we see is not all that it seems, am I blind?



And you sit there and talk revolution

But can you tell me just who's in command?

When you tell me the forces we're fighting

Then I'll join you and gladly make plans

But for now only our t-shirts cry freedom

And our voices are gagged by our greed

Our minds are harnessed by knowledge

By the hill and the will to succeed

And if that's not what you believe

Would you just let me know

I'm not standing alone

That I'm not just a voice in the crowd



If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

Just a little helping hand, just a little understanding

Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

If there's somebody up there, just throw me down a line

Just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right

Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

I'll keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

Where nothing is exactly how it seems

You're reaching out, you're so close you can touch it

But it all disappears when it's always so near

But one day we will find that we stand in the light

Until then I'll keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

Nothing here is ever what it seems

I'm scared to shout in case I draw attention from the powers

That preside over our minds and our lives

When they find what I want is the deadliest weapon, that is truth



Day by day it's getting louder

And day by day it's getting stronger

But when I can't scream no more and I need reassurance,

I listen to the crowd



And the boy stood and stared at the hill

And the hill - it stared back