Useless Tears

There are screams in the laughter of the children Blood in the expensive glass of wine There's a man on the stairs with a photo in his pocket in the building next to mine Well who is to know what he's thinking If there's anger in his belly or steak If there's blood in his eyes have him cry into a bottle of your red cabernet These useless tears they echo through the ears Keep on flowing year to year like an oil well Red despair is blowing through the air Now it's going everywhere Like the flames of hell Poison on the scalpel of a surgeon Damnation from the sermon up the hill cbandoned boy with a promise that was broken and a bottle left to fill cnd who's going to right his wrong now They're standing back behind their iron gate His anger is turned on another broken promise by the trembling hands of fate These useless tears they echo through the ears Keep on flowing year to year Like an oil well Red despair is blowing through the air Now it's going everywhere Like the flames of hell Theres's a crowd on the steps of the cathedral c beggar at the scene of the crime c man on the case with some quarters in his pocket in the building next to mine cnd as pauper holds his hand out The noble keeps his arms fixed to his sides With nothing at his mercy here's something that the noble unequivically decides These useless tears they echo through the ears Keep on flowing year to year Like an oil well Red despair is blowing through the air Now it's burning everywhere Like the flames of hell Oh the fear will never disappear For the devil's living here We're the ne'er-do-wells Red despair Is blowing through the air Now it's going everywhere Like the flames of hell