Breathing Fear

So full of hope that he can't sit still Even in the presence of strangers He's expecting his favourite guest The boy with easy virtues But when boy arrives He's got a black eye From the lads who plague us outside He laughs and calls for the world to die Then hugs and kisses it better Tell him why do you go to extremes And how it must show He's half-full of courage and he Stumbles to work Where they bitch about their babies They ask him where he got his bruises He mumbles excuses, he lies and lies He cannot allow them to finish him off Over-heated, overwrought He refuses to die like a saint Half-believed and always deceived Tell him why do you go to extremes And how it must show You've given us grief for centuries now Can you never rest Beaten, insulted, skewered and branded Isn't waking enough You've given us grief for centuries now Can you never rest Beaten, insulted, skewered and branded Isn't waking enough You're breathing this fear just once a year We suffocate every day Hey, you're breathing this fear just once a year We suffocate every day Tell him why do you go to extremes And how it must show Tell him why do you go to extremes And how it must show You've given us grief for centuries now Can you never rest Beaten, insulted, skewered and branded Isn't waking enough And why do you go to extremes And how it must show