Gray David A Century Ends Lyrics

A Century Ends Lyrics

Cast your eyes into the distance

 try to focus on it all

 find a spirit of resistance

 instead of pride before the fall

 forge some opposition

 from desperate strands

 it ain't the prettiest position

 as a century ends

 

 Unstable situation

 faces made of wax

 streams of melting glass

 sheets of butchered facts

 and the roar of the machine

 hooded hearts and jewelled hands

 and anger spilling out like gasoline

 as a century ends

 

 Everything I seen, everything that I heard

 it ain't even the tip of the iceberg

 fire down memory lane

 so pass me the rose tinted glasses again

 

 Through a fog of contradiction

 out to the lake of tears

 see society admiring its own reflection

 chase a light that shines and disappears

 now be careful what you say, 'cos reality offends

 just sit back, and let your soul decay

 as a century ends

 

 And its easy to get weary

 as you fight to get it done

 against a popular theory

 that its over before its even begun

 strain the limit of compassion

 tend a wound that never mends

 and honesty still out of fashion

 as a century ends