Words On Overtime

Sometimes

Something good

Needs understating to be understood

Needs towing back from the clich status

That empties meaning from the phrases

Used so often - once they held

The singularity of the bell

Used so often - once they held

The singularity of the bell

When words on overtime ring false cheer

Cos everyone's saying them, it numbs the ears

Picking up catchlines

The wrong word at the wrong time

Lost your future friends

The wrong word at the right time

Started up a trend

The right word at the right time

Is only in your head

Is only in your head

Sometimes

Something bad

Needs overstating in a sense gone mad

When pain fear and grief

Become too easy to believe

Then the feeling isn't coming through

When we daily consume oversimplified gloom

Reported by strangers

We fear anything we're not set to receive

And feel alienated

So when someone's pain

Gets in our faces

We need to hear

Different phrases

That we can believe

That we can believe

That we can believe

What kind of worlds have we created

Where basic feelings need re-creating

To avoid the perceptions of fiction and clich

Being received?

How long before via screen mentality

Will we all forget how to tell the reality

Apart from the act? There's the duality

Careful how you feed