Song Description
A song that blends the personal and the political. Can this relationship get "smarter"? Can we as a society learn how to live together? Great for a male character who sees a "better way", and just hopes that we learn how to pull it together.
| Song Length |
3:32 |
Genre |
Rock - Alternative, Rock - Classic |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Depressing, Tense |
Subject |
Courage, World |
| Language |
English |
| |
Lyrics
Can't you think of something else to say?
Or say the same thing in a different way?
Can't you think of anything
Our youth is bound to fall?
Can't you think of anything
To change the truth at all?
So we've got our tools and measuring rods
And decimal points to calculate the odds
But we cannot reverse the forward
Motion of our age
We can only curse the shadows
As they cross the page
As the shadows cross the page
(Chorus 1)
We've got so many things to learn and to unlearn
We've got so many bridges left to build and some to burn
We've got the English language in our pocket
Let's learn to talk it (x2)
Can we move on without our getting lost?
Can we rewrite the Book of Pentacost?
Can't you think of anything
Our youth is bound to fall?
Can't you think of anything
To change the truth at all?
(Chorus 2)
We've got so many things to learn and to unlearn
We've got so many bridges left to build and some to burn
We've got the English language in our pocket
Let's learn to talk it! (x2)
The line's as thin as the seam inside our pocket
Let's learn to walk it! (x2)