The money's running out
The casino's burning down
The police are getting nervous
The transmission's shot
And the schools are all locked
The offices have shut up shop
It's quiet on ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
Everything is out and it's perfect
Perfect best tonight
The black sky cracks with stars
All the old days fall apart
Stand up and hold your head up high
I know you'll try til the da...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
Satellites are spinning above
Spinning out a little hope in the darkness
An aerial is picking up the sound
Of something good starting to happen at last
I've never seen so much pani...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
Lately in the hospitals
The halfway homes and choking jails
There's people on the mend again
With hope to carry on again
It makes me feel that something's right
For everyone who tr...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
I am burning in a smoke-choked house but
Tonight is empty of warm glows and whispered good nights
Riot, disorder, set the banks on fire
Some old war song used to play here
Once I h...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
So my throat is in bits
And my lungs are real sick
I could plaster on a fake smile
And ruin my life in style
I'll build my home with useless guilt
With all the ones that didn'...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
This is a plague on all our homes
The gutter and the prisons we will go
You're rigging all the fights
And siding with the cheats
You're picking up your winnings late next week
The...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
I've had enough of loyalty oaths
And religious revivals
The gamblers debt, security checks
And the fight for survival
I'm getting out of this town
It's making me nervous
If t...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
All the people stuck behind
Dead bolts and steel plates
You're shut off from the noise outside
You couldn't leave if you tried
Because it's pointless
It's worthless
To deny that y...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States
I lived my life between the cracks
I carry sadness on my back
I lose, I know, I always will
I broke your heart and you broke mine
I'm hoping that before I die
I make you up, ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - Hope of the States