Lyrics to Our Chosen Song

I long what summer brings

Sunlight through open windows

Highlighting a lack of need for any kind of worry

I watched the time expire

Remove the carpet from my feet

On my living room

And with it all I want to keep the safety of my youth

I don’t want to go

When I hear that bell

Signal fire in my head

From out of this perfect slumber comes crystalline fear

The ring pulses in my ear

Heart blood pumping through my brain

Flash grenades remove my senses

I know I’m never going to hear the laughter from these streets

I don’t want to go

And evenings on the wind

Morning content to close its eyes

I catch a fleeting glance of someone I recognise

But cannot apprehend, there lies a decade in our eyes

Of eminence of faith

Of prospects unbeknown to me

He lights a cigarette

A glinting die is cast at noon

A child is left

A man is held in one resounding need

Signal fire in my head

Signal fire in my head

And with it all I want to keep the safety of my youth

I don’t want to go