We've All Been Cruel

You strangled your salacious twin What kind of bleak magic is that? I know the answer will always be unknown On a dark and starless airfield, a good man is burning Beneath the rose, see it lie still A tiger with terrible claws so cruel Within us an ambush will cut through In a wet Glaswegian graveyard, you gift me with your malware We've all been cruel Delete me – my essence debased Through history repeating itself Good grief, The Wolf and our children compare teeth By the battered shopping centres, the ring road’s empty relics Beneath the pining of the pylons, a werewolf epidemic Cut to the bone Without love – disorder Just leave it alone The world's been bad We've all been Outside our hotel window, a civil war is raging I can feel it now – the gods are being weaponised And I think to myself how did it get so late, well I can smell it now – our gods are being weaponised Outside our hotel window – the world exhaling Inside, the room is spinning Inside, the room is spinning Cut to the bone… We’ve all been cruel I see the tombstone, I read the name Beloved Thomas – he died in vain I feel blessed and yet so ashamed To have lived in such a carnivorous age Back in the airfield where the stars don't shine I saw the light wane from that young man's eyes As he burned like a beacon, like a beautiful siren I can't recall his name Cut to the bone… We've all been cruel