Words & music by paul simon On armistice day The philharmonic will play But the songs that we sing Will be sad Shufflin brown tunes Hanging around, ahoo
You're watching people fighting You're watching people losing on Armistice Day You're watching people fighting You're watching people losing on Armistice
I clawed at your skirt like it was a dirt floor And I could dig my way free of myself taking more But prisoners know nothing of victory at war Let's a
Dahlias, they come from me A promise to get well That ain't working, thinking that you're no good Don't worry 'cause I'm not the kind to kiss and tell
Faultless in the eyes that I could Never open wide enough to see me through Much to my surprise it never orbits Around the things you should hold me to
Can we call a truce? We both have our truths And I just wish this god damn mess... We could try and play it cool when it's going down I don't wanna fight
Known For Years The Trouble You've Been Causing And You Thought We Wouldn't Have Seen Anything Now That The Real Truth Is Resurfacing It Isn't Your Innoncence
First hour approaches Repretuating grief Empowering to strike down Sowing the defeat Their centre - line lies broken We will not forget Though faith will
Coat of black, coat of black Weary waiting, weary waiting I turn out the light, we kiss goodnight And weary waiting Weary waiting to come closer Closer
Out of time and out of inclinations, boring How's it feel to watch your man relenting? Let's just say that I might be a sucker for progress It's all in
She knows every little way To get the thing that she wants My heart is an oven And she's pushing the buttons right now, right now She's gonna kill me
Can you believe this world's got the nerve to insist That it won't trade in for a better one? Can you believe this world's yellin' out in the dark It
We don't have to try running from each other I read your eyes, you don't have to bother Maybe we'll survive if we don't discover One life ties to another
Hold on to the way we started How it all should have gone Somewhere love was disregarded And it all came undone, undone 'Cause nothing's a breeze, we
Back and forth, the same, be careful how you frame Your argument, your argument We've been given all we can and we finally show the end Of our tolerance
You got a whole lot left to say now You knocked all your wind out You just tried too hard and you froze I know, I know What do you say? What do you say
Crime in the currency For that abandoned wall Oh, would you care to be in love again? But then it got started No one is better off Hope is a candle-lit
Feeling all alone Carrying bottled skies around I've been drowning all along Wear it out in a faltered sea and I give up Common sense failed again Meddling
