We don't understand
Lyrics and music R.G.Theil, 1984
I don’t know what to give to you to make you ponder,
I don’t know what to say to you to make you wonder.
Brushing the skies, the last rays burn,
A russet flame on a darkening sky,
Another day and the breezes sigh
What did the new day bring ?
What did the new day bring ?
I don’t know what to give to you who play with futures,
I don’t know what to say to you who ask for gestures,
Gestures of faith to still the alarm,
The collage of news lines seeps into the grain
Of the sense and the purpose, the pleasures and pain
That we think that we understand.
We don’t understand.
I don’t know what to give to you who deal and plunder,
I don’t know what to say to you who blithely slumber.
All surface and shallows, illusions and dreams,
The heartless, soulless, immune to the flow,
Of the passing of life, an ephemeral glow,
That we simply don’t understand.
