Tunnel Vision Lyrics - Kate Tempest

Indigenous apocalypse, decimated forest, the Winter of our discontent's upon us 

Desolate apostles, left with Strongbow at the crossroads 

We are nothing but an eating mouth, oesophagus, colossal 

We won't stop until we've beaten down the planet into pellets 

Before the interstellar mission to inflict more terror 

It's killing me, it's killing me, it's filling me, I'm vomiting, it's still in me 

Everything is fine really, silly me 

Poor kids shot dead, poor kids locked up 

Poor kids saying, "This is the future that you left us?" 

Stopped up lunch meat, processed, punch from an unclean fatcat 

Tasty, tasty poison 

Carcinogenic, diabetic, asthmatic, epileptic, post-traumatic, bipolar and disaffected 

Atomised, thinking we're engaged when we're pacified 

Staring at the screen so we don't have to see the planet die 

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What we gonna do to wake up? 

We sleep so deep, it don't matter how they shake us 

If we can't face it, we can't escape it 

But tonight the storm's come 

She's screaming, she's screaming 

The drones turned her beautiful boy into a pile of bones 

No body to bury, nobody is home 

Running from war, the boat's full, the boat's sinking a mile off shore 

No beds in the hospitals, our minds are against us 

Imagine your daughter was gunned down defenceless on her way to school 

There'd be uproar 

But she's collateral damage, it doesn't matter 

Now if our kids are fine, that's enough for us 

You can't love into a vacuum, there's got to be a limit 

Welcome to the biggest crime that's ever been committed 

You think you and I are different kinds, you're caught up in specifics 

You and I apart are easier to limit 

The illusion's so complete it's impossible to bring it into focus 

Cinematic stock footage, you think people are locusts 

Uniform men keep unleashing explosives 

What we gonna do to wake up? 

We sleep so deep, it don't matter how they shake us 

If we can't face it, we can't escape it 

But tonight the storm's come 

Tunnel vision, tunnel vision 

Work, drinks, heartbreak 

You can't face the past, the past's a dark place 

Can't sleep, can't wake, sitting in our boxes 

Notching up our victories as other people's losses 

Another day, another chance to turn your face away from pain 

Let's get a takeaway 

And meet me in the pub a little later, we'll say the same things as ever 

Life's a waiting game 

When we gonna see that life is happening? 

And that every single body bleeding on its knees is an abomination 

And every natural being is making communication 

And we're just sparks, tiny parts of a bigger constellation 

We're miniscule molecules that make up one body 

You see the tragedy and pain of a person that you've never met 

Is present in your nightmares, in your pull towards despair 

And the sickness of the culture, and the sickness in our hearts 

Is a sickness that's inflicted by this distance that we share 

Now, it was our bombs that started this war 

And now it rages far away 

So we dismiss all its victims as strangers 

But they're parents and children made dogs by the danger 

Existence is futile, so we don't engage 

But it was our boats that sailed, killed, stole, and made frail 

It was our boots that stamped 

It was our courts that jailed 

And it was our f' banks that got bailed 

It was us who turned bleakly away 

Looked back down at our nails and our wedding plans 

In the face of a full-force gale, we said 

"Well, it's not up to us to make this place a better land 

It's not up to us to make this place a better land." 

Justice, justice, recompense, humility 

Trust is, trust is something we will never see 

Till love is unconditional 

The myth of the individual has left us disconnected, lost, and pitiful 

I'm out in the rain 

It's a cold night in London 

And I'm screaming at my loved ones to wake up and love more 

I'm pleading with my loved ones to wake up and love more