Breathing Fear - Kitchens Of Distinction

So full of hope that he can’t sit still

Even in the presence of strangers

He’s expecting his favourite guest

The boy with easy virtues

But when the boy arrives

He’s got a black eye

From the lads who plague us outside

He laughs and calls for the world to die

Then hugs and kisses it better

Tell him why do you go to extremes

And how it must show

He’s half-full of courage and he

Stumbles to work

Where they bitch about their babies

They ask him where he got his bruises

He mumbles excuses, he lies and lies

He cannot allow them to finish him off

Over-heated, overwrought

He refuses to die like a saint

Half-believed and always deceived

Tell him why do you go to extremes

And how it must show

Giving us grief for centuries now

Can’t you ever rest?

Beaten, insulted, skewered and branded

Isn’t waking enough?

You’re breathing this fear just once a year

We suffocate every day

Hey… you’re breathing this fear just once a year

We suffocate every day!