The Echoes Fade

The echo of each step I take shouts back at me

Rebounding off the splattered walls and my ears bleed

The distant echoes ring as though not far away

A hollow town an empty life and who's to pay?

Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade

Our buildings vast and high

Concrete jungles in the sky

And kids are stranded on the corners

Dressed to kill in uniforms

Threatened by the danger of a falling brick

Built to breed our problems

Then the echoes fade and time stands still

Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade

The powers fallen in public hands

Official secrets burnt in sand

And riots fulfil this bloody land

The blame shall fall on no mans head

A champagne glass in the ghettos grasp

Committed to survive this ritual task

Revolution, sham, scream, paranoid, anarchy pathetic dreams

The echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade

Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade

Sad wives await for pleasant days to fill their bitter empty wombs

A mound of browning leaves entwined

With guns and bullets on the blown up paths

A mound of empty wrappers entwined with bloodied tissues

And piles of shattered glass whose war was it anyway?

Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade

Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade

Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade

Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade

Then the echoes fade, the echoes fade, oh the echoes fade