Paper crowns
On plastic chairs
Smiling for
A thousand empty prayers
They sign their names
In crayon on the war plans
High on power
Low on any real plans
We lit the match
They poured the gas
Simple minds in a house of glass
Clapping while the headlines burn
Saying “how were we to learn?”
We built a throne from every lie
Watched them set the world on fire
And they just stare into the glow
Saying “how were we to know?”
Big red buttons
Labeled “just for show”
They press them laughing
Watch the numbers grow
Every promise
Written in disappearing ink
Every crisis
Met with “we don’t have to think”
We lit the match
They poured the gas
Simple minds in a house of glass
Clapping while the headlines burn
Saying “how were we to learn?”
We built a throne from every lie
Watched them set the world on fire
And they just stare into the glow
Saying “how were we to know?”
They pass the blame
Like a midnight cigarette (take a drag)
Shrug it off
Say it’s “as good as it gets” (as it gets)
If every fool is holding power
Tell me who’s left to kill the tower?
We lit the match
They poured the gas
Simple minds in a house of glass
Clapping while the headlines burn
Saying “how were we to learn?”
We built a throne from every lie
Watched them set the world on fire
And they just stare into the glow
Saying “how were we to know?”
Track from the album "Tiny Revolutions"
