When we were young
Wayward and dumb
No one could change your heart
Now the bitterness of this world
Has worn you down
And you’ve got no time for sentimental feelings
Oh why do you give all your time to those
Who just want to keep you in the dark
Why stay with those who yearn the most
Oh to kill your heart

Now once you believed in books and ideas
With your misfit friends
You’d talk for hours and hours
And you only listened to those you respected
Now you only listen to creeps
Who’d have you believe
That money speaks
And just want to keep us apart
Why stay with those who ache the most
Oh to kill your heart

Your daddy was sick, your mummy was missing
Were you doomed right from the start
Your sister was angry
Your brother was empty
Was it him or them or me
That made you this way

For now your belief in magic is gone
Where once you had direction
Now there is none
And you gravitate home
Because the world fucking scares you
And you wish you were a kid again
With long hot holidays in the sun
And you yearn for the past but the past is gone
And those days are not coming back
Why stay with those who yearn the most
Oh to kill your heart

So I’ll put mine away, never to be opened
In another’s company
Far away from those sucking on the carcass
Of the 21st century
For whom success is everything
Who just want to keep you on the bottom
Some use tanks and some use bombs (and just want to keep you behind)
Others, it’s bullets and poison darts
But the ones to beware of, the one you should run from
Are the ones who’ll use words
They want to kill your heart