Empty Vessels - The Maccabees, Roots Manuva

Trodding the road with no place to go

It ain’t safe to know

It ain’t safe to feel so

Unattached to any particular concern

But to reconfirm that we

Dare to take this

Root hard travel with perpetual babbles

Our bittersweet civiles

Similar to what the society’s teaching

Society’s beating the best and the worst

And it’s yet another squalid verse

In the thirst and the quest and they’re yet to be wretched

Such is the nature of the searcher

When you’ve had it up to here, and you don’t wish to hurt’ya

And I’ve got a big list of blame

And I will call out names

And I will fuel the shame that may

Set upon society shows for generations to come

Comfortably numb from the barrel of the gun

Before we have to break this world

Before we have to shake this world

What will it take to wake this world

And hear the silent sigh, the silent cry

(Alone, alone, alone, not alone at all)

Empty vessels with a big 'ole noise

The hunger for joy, but the men stay boys

Wrapped in them ego, base releash

That you’ve got to use your fists and your gun to achieve

Reinforced by the glory of their beautiful screens

With beautiful scenes, and beautiful screams

So how many tears must fall

When we all play a part, and we all could do more

If you got no kind words to say

You should say nothing more at all

(Alone, alone, alone)

There we go merrily, merrily we go

Same old, same old, scenario

You took a blow now, she took a blow

Too late to fret now, too late to show

If you got no kind words to say

You should say nothing more at all

Empty vessels with a big ol' noise

Empty vessels with a big ol' noise