Breathing Fear

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 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

You've given us grief for centuries now
Can you never rest
Beaten, insulted, skewered and branded
Isn't waking enough

You've given us grief for centuries now
Can you never 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

Tell him why do you go to extremes
And how it must show

Tell him why do you go to extremes
And how it must show

You've given us grief for centuries now
Can you never rest
Beaten, insulted, skewered and branded
Isn't waking enough

And why do you go to extremes
And how it must show