Then They Came for Me

I can hear a Jericho Trumpet

But the sky's perfectly clear

Whether it’s real or recollection

It’s like I'm stranded on a pier

Watching waves of emigration

Being rewound off the beach

While the long road to unconsciousness

Ebbs out at my heels

Now I'm walking the halls of Charles de Gaulle

With a fresh-minted boarding pass

I got a date with Ben-Gurion

Standing in a subway

I'm feeling like I've overstayed

I'm waiting with my sack for the Amtrak

And a ticket out of JFK

(And when they came for him)

I didn't do anything

(And when they came for her)

I didn’t do nothing

(And when they came for him)

I didn’t say a thing

(And when they came for her)

Still not a word

You see that barren blue under the engines

There ain’t a fish left in the Levantine sea

There ain’t a dolphin torch in all the West Bank's flanks

Now they're lit by electricity

The wise man knows that all things flow

Through tubes to their destination

Through the sewers of Athens and the odd BUK missile

And the Underground's tube stations

I never knew the lure of monsters

I’ve never been one for crusades

But now I hear a Jericho Trumpet

You can't be sure you're doing much more

Than playing for some rumoured stakes

So when the pilgrims become bandits on their transits

Well, it's time to make your getaway

(And when they came for him)

I didn't do anything

(And when they came for her)

I didn’t do nothing

(And when they came for him)

I didn’t say a thing

(And when they came for her)

Still not a word

Now the red top rags are all flying black flags

The lowlifes are making gains

You’d be thinking they were staff writers

The gulls in Crete are sharpening their beaks

Seamstresses sew in hell

A tailored cut, a perfect fit

A skull grinding it's teeth on each lapel

(And when they came for him)

I didn't do anything

(And when they came for her)

I didn’t do nothing

(And when they came for him)

I didn’t say a thing

(And when they came for her)

Still not a word

(And when they came for him)

I didn't do anything

(And when they came for her)

I didn’t say nothing

(And when they came for him)

I didn’t say a thing

(And when they came for her)

Still not a word