Testo Thin

And we are standing at the funeral pyre
Where their ashes are burning
And we are waiting at the rocks piled high
‘Round the tombstones of reason

There are things in the world that are bigger than a man
Like a man and his wife who just couldn't understand
Why I stabbed him in the back, before she felt the back of his hand
There are things in a life that are bigger than the world
Like the day-to-day battle ‘tween a boy and a girl
And the gun in her hand I left with a bottle of pills

Pray back the tide that rolls
Water over rock will take its toll

There are things in a life that bigger than us all
Like the gunned down victims in my school house hall
The youngest of them all, she stood but three feet tall

There things for us that are bigger than them
Like the lives and the courage of their women and their men
And the weapons I made, to sacrifice one for ten
Pray back the tide that rolls
Water over rock will take my soul

There are things for them that are bigger than us
Like the life of a friend and her wheels on a bus
And the pain in her hands coin in god we trust

Pray back the tide that rolls
Water over rock will take its toll