The Ties We Break Songtext
von Iain Matthews

Dig back a million years or more
Before we lived in Arkansas
Catch the rivers overflowing
No guts to quake or terrorize
No tragic look in young men′s eyes
No righteous armies massed
With trumpets blowing
So you want to move up through the years
To where the iceman disappears
Imagination soars beyond all borders
And freeze the hand to shape the plow
Squeeze the trigger, wipe the brow
Of the bombardier who chose to follow orders
And the carousel turns
And we go round and round
Till the spokes are all gone
And the wheel comes unwound
We are like children
Standing in the wake
Of a future we made


We are like children
And these, these are the ties we break
Well now we move in quantum leaps
A microchip that never sleeps
A techno-vision growing ever bolder
The trees are cut, the roots are lost
We forge ahead despite the cost
An unforgiving sun above our shoulders
And the carousel turns
And we go round and round
Till the spokes are all gone
And the wheel comes unwound
We are like children
Standing in the wake
Of a future we made
We are like children
And these, these are the ties we break
Well tell me, how are we doing?
Why are we moving so slow?
And show me where are we going?
Are we improving? Hell no
Now we're living with the constant fear
Of knowing in a hundred years
We could have started turning the tables
And one thing we cannot discount
The one thing I lose sleep about
Just look at who′s inheriting these fables
Well they are the children
Lying in wait, lying in wait
They are the children
And these, these are the ties
Well they are the children
And these, these are the ties we break