The Fall Lyrics

We watch it on the TV, can you take it in

You bury your fears and disbelief, at the thought that they might win

We're in the time of darkness, we never thought we'd see

I'm praying for a chink of light; I hope you'll prey with me

We didn't see it coming, most didn't after all

We couldn't have imagined to hear that siren call

Air raids and destruction, where did it all begin

It's called the fall, it's called the fall

Fleeing crowds of refugees, gather in a foreign land

Do we think to try and reach out, or put our head in the sand

Helpless tear-streaked children with nowhere left to run

Glancing back in terror, down the barrel of a gun

You didn't see it coming, most didn't after all

You couldn't have imagined to hear that siren call

Blinded by the thunder-flash of the works of human hands

It's called the fall, it's called the fall

Lining up to take my load, jostled by the crowd

They wonder where all this might end, where's the truth we once avowed

Of bellowing smoke and charred remains, of something I once loved

They can only see themselves, saved from the heavens above

You didn't see it coming, most didn't after all

You couldn't have imagined to hear that siren call

What were they thinking, we never could understand

It's called the fall, it's called the fall

You didn't see it coming, most didn't after all

You couldn't have imagined to hear that siren call

The wailing of the rockets, the tank-tracks in the mud

It's called the fall