Well I spooked a woman, I moved too fast She Slipped out my fingers, ran through the grass Now I live among the ruins I try to remember that woman's face But I forget a little more everyday And I live among the ruins
Now being white is a criminality Now everyone is Roma and Cherokee And now we live among the ruins But we don‘t know their culture we don't know their past And we create a future in complete contrast And they’ll live among the ruins
lsaw Hiroshima, Dresden, and London bombed I saw streets alive and then they're gone And now they live among the ruins i saw shadowy figures, the crumble of nations 'l'he revolution in Spain led to a great vacation And now we live among the ruins
Ilium was founded on the site of Troy A thousand years after it was first destroyed And they lived among the ruins Schliemann dug it up in his own crude way His destructive methods leave little today And we live among ruins of ruins