Letra de Living With the Big Lie
It all began with the bright light The bright light and the noise The chaos of the senses and the scream of desireTouching and being touched A million loose ends to tie up The ticking of the clock and the cradle rockThe colours stand still And then they move around Coming in and out of focus upside downEmpty winter trees How space feels Love of the soft flowers and the skyOne fine day The chaos subsides Bleeds into awareness And a lifetime of surpriseThe beauty of your mother's eyes The pain when you fall You drink it in and marvel at it all But you never really figure it outYou get used to itThe babble of the family And the dumb TV Roar of the traffic and the thunder of jetsThe chemicals in the water Drugs in the food The heat of the kitchen and the beat of the systemThe attitude of authority And the laws and the rules Hit me square in the face, first morning at schoolThe heroes and the zeroes The first love of my life When to kiss and to kick and to keep your head down when they're choosing the sidesI was never any good at it I was terrified most of the time I never got over it I got used to itAlone in the city at seventeen With the hollow and the lonely The drowning and the drowned I was made to feel worthless The wretched and the mean Beat me up like a weapon I can't run away from or find a way round Holdin' on Holdin' onThe greed and the missiles Exploding somewhere every day Hideous dark secrets under the sea and in holes in the groundThe cold war's gone But those bastards'll find us another one They're here to protect you, don't you know? So get used to it, get used to it!Oh, the clash of religions The loaded prayers Information, the face of starvation and the state of the nationThe sense that it's useless And the fear to try Not believing the leaders, the media that feeds us Living with the big lieYou get used to it Yeah, get used to it It's okay, it's ok, I got used to it