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