Stiff Little Fingers - Achilles' Heart lyrics

rate me

It was a different world back then

Though not so long ago

I thought I understood most men

And now I just don't know

For all that I thought myself smart

I can't fix the rupture and break

In my achilles' heart

And all the certainties I had

Here all been washed away

It seems my world was built on sand

It vanished in a day

With all my beliefs torn apart

And I'm left with now are the shards

(of) my achilles' heart

What seemed like dreams are really nightmares

what seemed like fiction's really real

When my brain won't take in what my eyes say they've seen

Then we've surely reached the end

So although life must soldier on

A way of living now has gone

A right to freedom and to be

Has been denied to you and me

It's difficult but we must start

To undo the damage that's done

To our Achilles' heart