Peace, Love & Murder (Unadorned) - Matthew Ryan

What’s so funny

About peace and love?

Peace and love,

and murder?

Everyone I know

Is feeling took

They don’t know where to turn

Or where to look

This sorrow weighs a ton

But we could be the ones this time

The adverts everywhere

The constant flood

You’ve never been so lonesome

It can’t be good

Am I the only one that wonders what my thoughts could be?

The punks have sold us out

They’re all pop stars now

The heart’s a ruthless plow

And hungry too

I’m hungry too

We feel it in our guts

There’s something wrong

The madness here is viral

We sing along

To anthems just so dumb

Mute the fireworks and drums

And there’s nothing there

Sometimes it rains for days

Sometimes there’s bombs

We’re whistling past the graveyards

While car alarms are swirling up like dirt

Some dry and die of thirst while others drown

The punks have sold us out

They’re all pop stars now

The heart’s a ruthless plow

And hungry too

I’m hungry too

Now what’s so funny

About peace and love?

Peace and love,

and murder?

The empires of the mind

There’s no refuge

That hard won bloody peace

Was just a truce

The monsters live within

We fight, sometimes we win

But it’s not enough

The punks have sold us out

They’re all pop stars now

The heart’s a ruthless plow

And hungry too

I’m hungry too

Now what’s so funny

About peace and love?

Peace and love

And murder?