Curtain Call

His nervous heart has long stopped beating

But the body still pretends that it is me

And if all the queues are met

The lowest expectation set

You will suspend your disbelief

And you and I can act like nothing ever happened

We can be so unaffected by the course of history

If what you've lost gives you a reason to surrender

How can you pretend that this is who you want to be

Wanted to tell you not to give up

That the reward was worth the pain

But a lie to ease your sorrow is still a lie

And what could either of us hope to gain

When you and I still act like nothing ever happened

We can be so unaffected by the course of history

If what you've lost gives you a reason to surrender

How can you pretend that this is who you want to be

We let our systems shut down

We build so many walls

Yes we're afraid but we are safe

And no one ever has to know

That we have nowhere else to go

We want outside ourselves

But it's to late

We were acting like nothing ever happened

So ashamed to be affected by the course of history

And what we lost gave me a reason to surrender

I can't remember now what I had hope to be

You didn't want to lie to me

You didn't want to tell the truth

But there was just no other way

The world would keep it's faith in you

You didn't want to burn it down

But you couldn't let it be

You sweep the ashes off the ground

And you suspend your disbelief

By my own hand he said

By my hand

I will fall