Broken Circles Lyrics - Levellers

Fired forty rounds in the center of town 

He thought to bring the world around 

Sleepless nights with God and Christ 

The New Messiah 

To burn the world to change the days 

Can be done in better ways 

But to make news and front page 

You've got to aim higher 

They didn't build Jerusalem 

They didn't find the land 

For reasons of security 

They couldn't get the plans 

And we're left standing watching from below 

No new songs and no new heroes 

Standing on the sidelines watching the flow 

Waiting till the day the circle's broken 

Took the mic to save day 

The rock star's going to have his say 

I interpret this in any way as if it matters 

'cause nothing's black and nothing's white 

Nothing appears to be quite right 

It'll be this way until the day 

The circle's shattered 

I hear an old song yesterday 

About a better world 

You know the story 

They're all the same 

The boy gets the girl 

From the tips of your fingers 

The rest is numb 

You begin to feel the warmth of the sun 

It's slipping away been taking away 

All you once knew 

Taking it back takes all you've got 

No time to sit and watch it rot 

Believe it's yours and not the lies 

Or all hell to you