Sketch For A Summer
The Durutti Column
3:03Children, their only home the street All they know is danger in everyone they meet Turn away and shrug your shoulders As mercy grows a little colder Democracy becomes hypocrisy And human aid is lost in bureaucracy Be faithful to the drugs that pull your head about I think you'll lose it soon, I think you'll just freak out Every town has its asking price Every town demands wasted youth Children, their only home the street All they know is danger in everyone they meet Turn away and shrug your shoulders As mercy grows a little colder Democracy becomes hypocrisy And human aid is lost in bureaucracy Be faithful to the drugs that pull your head about I think you'll lose it soon, I think you'll just freak out Every town has its asking price Every town demands wasted youth Children, their only home the street All they know is danger in everyone they meet Turn away and shrug your shoulders As mercy grows a little colder Democracy becomes hypocrisy And human aid is lost in bureaucracy Be faithful to the drugs that pull your head about I think you'll lose it soon, I think you'll just freak out Every town has its asking price Every town demands wasted youth Every town demands wasted youthIn every stranger's face I see Visions of these mysteries Who's gonna hold you when you're broken? Is love still gonna be unspoken? Please let me sleep, I do no harm And take me to a night time of calm Lay down with me, it's only sleep I crave No beginning and no end to these ocean waves Even my soul is naked to your stare Balance of life is what you can see there