Plunkett - The emperor's new clothes lyrics

rate me

Smoke in the dark makes me ask

Why can’t I feel it?

Or even taste it as I draw it down

I cough now and then so perhaps

I should believe it

Only darkness keeps me down with the dust

So I’ll try

And I’ll cry out to all of the others

All of the others who ask in the dust here with me now

To justify a reason

A reason why we just don’t all have faith that we breathe it

Is darkness the only reason?

‘Cos all our coughing should be all we need to believe it

But we don’t and so we lie still

Weak with the strong and strong with the weak

Our egos betray love

We’re like animals starved in our kind

Be strong with the strong look after the weak

Then we can preach love

Only apathy keeps us down with the dust

So I’ll try

And I’ll cry out to all of the others

All of the others who clasp to the dust here with me now

To justify a reason

A reason why we just don’t all have faith and then prove it

Is distraction the only reason?

Because our willing is all that we need to break through it

But we don’t and so we lie still

The poor young boy

Had nothing to lose

Then the others a saw what they knew

And they laughed so hard

So I’ll try

And I’ll cry out to all of the others

All of the others who gasp in the dust here with me now

To justify a reason

A reason why we just don’t all have faith and then brave it

Is fear the only reason?

Because our willing is all that we need to defy it

But we don’t and so we lie still

The emperor's new clothes

Do they blind you?

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album 'Folk Songs' 2008