Blue Screen Beams - Lanterns On The Lake

You say the TV is faking us, and all our heroes have forsaken us

Don’t leave us out here like some sycophants

You say wait for the right time, but it’s never the right time

If you don’t see me back here then you’ll know

And that scrolling screen is all you seem willing to hold on to

Only tonight we were splitting our sides

Just thinking what a week it’s been

He said, «When all is told and you weigh it up

We don’t need a wall, we need a bigger boat»

Well tell me something new

He said, «Do I have hope?»

And I said, «I don’t»

But I do, I do, I do, 'course I do

When you put out the call, but your hero never seems to show

When your begging pleas fall on deaf ears of the gods you need

I still do, I do

I do declare it’s a cartoon out there

We’re better off here in this living room

The future is taunting us, history’s haunting us

Look at us now, this will never do

These rising degrees and the blue screen beams

Don’t say we go down like this

And you’re never alone like

When you’re alone on the dawn light precipice

He said, «When all is told and you weigh it up

We don’t need a wall, we need a bigger boat»

Well tell me something new

He said, «Do I have hope?»

And I said, «I don’t»

But I do, I do, I do, 'course I do

When you put out the call, but your hero never seems to show

When your begging pleas fall on deaf ears of the gods you need

I still do, I do

When you put out the call, but your hero never seems to show

When your begging pleas fall on deaf ears of the gods you need

I still do, I do, I do, I do