Landfall

"People don't understand,"

That is what you say to yourselves

As you nibble away

At our rights, our freedoms

Spending far too long in the dark

All alone

With your mandate for power

For ruling, such as it is

It's enough for ruin

All we have is unreal

Nothing so unwritten is safe

Insecurity and power

Is a force to be feared

Seems it's an impossible thing

To be open

And cover your backs

From those who put you there

In the place that is your home

To scorn our deepest fears

And take it on themselves

To take it all and do it in our names

This land is so afraid

For in the fading light

This land, in time may fall

Plant some reality here

Here into the front of my home

If they take you apart

Have to fight for yourselves

Funny how it's always the same

It don't matter who's holding

The key to the garden

The limit of my understanding is reached

Ten years on from the day they broke down the line

Red man Arthur was proved right all along

Loose your big train of thought

Take it to a wall with some writing:

"question authority"

And then it says "why?"

What we have to say to ourselves

As we marvel at all of the facts

And the figures at the fingertips

Of the men in power