Lyrics

Nothing can prepare you
For the shock, for the blast
Hiding in denial
Never thinking of the past

You shield yourself in silence
No responsibility
Numb mainstream reliance
Smiling in complicity

Sentries at your doorstep
Protect your gilded throne
Upholding your corruption
Is all they’ve ever known

Someday soon they’ll realise
The truth will set them free
And drag you from your tower
Into reality

But you never venture out
Never step beyond your walls
Never consider for a second
How far you have to fall

It’s too late for reparations
When the walls come crashing down
You can never go back
You can never go back
You can never go back

Why did you hide for so long
Until you had no choice
Self righteous condescension
Left them without a voice

Did you think you’d never have to answer
for what you did
when you bottled it all up
and scoffed and laughed and joked and hid

But you never ventured out
Never stepped beyond your walls
Never considered for a second
How far you had to fall

It’s too late for reparations
Now the walls are crashing down
You can never go back
You can never go back
You can never go back