Common people living quietly in confusion

Information's giving quite a grand illusion

Hearts are beating, keeping time

To meet a deadline

Faces pressed against the pane

To watch a headline



When the winds blow I will call

When the winds blow I will call

When the winds blow I will call you

We will stand and watch them fall



All our ships are sailing blindly

Under one sun

Sending signals, calling kindly

Reaching no-one

Echoes sound the shifting air

Of empires calling

Hold my hand, the shifting sand

Of empires falling



When the winds blow I will call

When the winds blow I will call

When the winds blow I will call you

We will stand and watch them fall

Oh we'll stand and watch them fall



We confided, then decided not to follow

All the slogans, taunts and charges

Sound so hollow

With open minds across the border

We have waited

But keeping place within this race is complicated



When the winds blow I will call

When the winds blow I will call

When the winds blow I will call you

We will stand and watch them



When the winds blow I will call

When the winds blow I will call

When the winds blow I will call you

We will stand and watch them fall

Oh we'll stand and watch them fall



Words and music: M. Ure/D. Mitchell