The Border

The Border - Tony Banks

Dry forever

The sun blinds off the whitewashed walls

Unbelieving

She looks up from the unswept floor

You don't have to go you don't have to tell me

All that talk of lofty causes wrapped in foolish pride

That's a lie

You don't have to tell me

I don't wanna hear how wisdom walks beside you

Or how god is inside you again

No wire marks the border no fence or wall

No town breaks this horizon nothing at all

Dust surrounds her the men go hungry for

For disaster all they leave behind are

The old and useless and the broken that never will be mended

I don't wanna hear you're captured by the madness

Of ideas long discredited from other people's minds

They're all lies

You don't have to tell me

All that comes of this is poverty and hardship

Still you don't absorb a word I say

But now there is a border a line of blood

Now men patrol the border but they're dead

Somewhere a bird is flying

Somewhere the wind is sighing

I hope it brings you comfort 'cos it's

Surely no good to me

This wind blows me down and cuts me like a knife

And now the darkness and coldness that freezes out illusion

Restores the picture gives back the pieces

And lays them on the empty floor

I don't want to hear so you don't have to tell me

How you rewrite history a little every day

Till it's lies

You don't have to tell me

I don't want to hear

How good it really has been

How wonderful the troubles

We shared

No I don't want to hear

So you don't have to tell me

I don't need your comfort I just need your company