Breakthrough Lyrics - Hammill Peter

The visitors find the children gone from school: 

aged relations sling their guns across the desks... 

there'll be no break-time for them unless 

they talk about tomorrow 

as though it's already on its way. 

Amen, oh yes, they're 

waiting for the breakthroug 

h in time. 

The visitors hide no aces up their sleeves 

and the classroom pulses to many different drums. 

If only a breakthrough in time would come 

there'd be some chance for the visited ones. 

We could talk about tomorrow 

as though we believed in that. 

W 

e could talk about it right now, 

and it would come as a shock 

to feel the fingernail grow on the trigger finger - 

still the visitors clock us 

waiting for the breakthrough, 

waiting for the breakthrough 

with time on our hands. 

(It's there all the tim 

e.)