Bless ‘Em All - Tim Booth

We survived another night

Tortured by reflected light

All our battles are in the mind

Revenge is never without cost

Can’t retrieve the things you lost

Please remind me what this war was for

To the south there’s a storm tonight

Off to the east a force is rising

In the West we must agree to disagree

And the hail balls down hard

And the walls cry

Love is the cure

And the heart it breaks break breaks

Cracks in the sidewalk

Chase veins across freeways write

Love is the cure

As the earth it shakes shake shakes

Bless them all

Bless them all

Beyond understanding

Please don’t let the fires go out

Hope’s the antidote to doubt

Way too soon to say we’ve done our best

Luck has borne me in the West

I can choose to be oppressed

I mostly choose to feather my own nest

We came across in this awful light

Depends upon the lens you’re using

We’ll not go quietly you should know by now

Bless them all, bless them all

Beyond understanding

Bless them all, bless them all

Beyond understanding

Will someone please explain to me what makes a human being

Love is the cure

As the earth tilts 6°

We succumb to some dumb calling

One-man stand against tanks

Love is the cure

Let go and set yourself free

Towers falling slow motion

Sky scraping one by one

Love is the cure

For the land of the ill at ease

Lifted clean into the air in the fist of a twister

Love is the cure

Crash down on the sickening breeze

We built these walls piece by piece

Trade spawned, turtle speed

Love is the cure

Blown away in a blink or a sneeze

Through the land I breeze

Updrafts lift me

Love is the cure

From these heights I see