Vigil-Oldfish

[00:26.55]Listen to me just hear me out [00:39.54]If I could have your attention [00:52.08]Just quieten down for a voice in the crowd (in the crowd) [01:06.72] [01:16.89]I get so confused and I don't understand [01:29.59]I know you feel the same way you've always wanted to say [01:43.09]But you don't get the chance [01:50.29]Just a voice in the crowd in the crowd [01:58.59] [02:08.72]I don't know the score anymore it's not clear anymore [02:21.28]I can't tell right from wrong anymore I just don't understand [02:31.42] [02:43.63]I was sitting here thinking of exchanging a new world for old [02:51.53]Like changing channels on the TV or the dirt we stand in to gold [02:59.50]When I was young my father told me just the bad guys die [03:03.36]At the time just a little white lie [03:07.63]It was one of the first but it hurt me the most [03:11.53]And the truth stung like tears in my eye [03:15.60]That even the good guys must die [03:19.35]There's no reasoning no crimes and I never knew why [03:23.57]Even now it still makes me cry [03:28.38]If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line [03:35.51]Just a little helping hand just a little understanding [03:39.36]Just some answers to the questions that surround me now [03:44.33]If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line [03:51.27]Just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right [03:55.56]Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you [03:58.93]I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors [04:03.78]Where nothing here is ever what it seems [04:07.77]You stand so close but you never understand it [04:11.84]For all that we see is not what it seems am I blind [04:22.86]Uh fire [04:25.20] [05:15.70]And you sit there and talk revolution [05:19.44]But can you tell me just who's in command [05:23.53]When you tell me the forces we are fighting [05:27.49]Then I'll gladly join and make plans [05:31.22]But for now only our T-shirts cry freedom [05:35.35]And our voices are gagged by our greed [05:39.53]Our minds are harnessed by knowledge [05:43.49]By the hill and the will to succeed [05:47.52]And if that's not what you believe [05:51.51]Would you let me know I'm not standing alone [05:55.51]That I'm not just a voice in the crowd [06:00.25]If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line [06:07.21]Just a little helping hand just a little understanding [06:11.24]Just a little understanding to the questions that I'm asking you [06:16.12]If there's somebody up there could they throw me down a line [06:23.18]Just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right [06:27.41]Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you [06:30.83]I'll keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors [06:35.65]Where nothing here is ever what it seems [06:39.59]You reach now you so colse you can touch world that old [06:45.11]Dispires when they total we so near [06:51.15]But one day we will fire there we stand in the line [06:58.10]On to they now people they vigil in a wide on the mirrors [07:03.73]Where nothing here is ever what it seems [07:07.57]I'm scared to shout in case I draw attention from the powers [07:13.13]That preside over our minds and our lives [07:19.47]When they find what I want is the deadliest weapon that is truth [07:29.12] [07:41.63]Day by day it's getting louder [07:47.50]And day by day it's getting stronger [07:53.55]But when I can't scream no more and I need reassurance [08:05.59]I listen to the crowd [08:06.96]