Redgum - Beyond Reason lyrics

Night closed in around us And we trimmed the lamps again Against the greatest darkness man had known A nation's grain was locked against the famine of another And hope was in the fast lane riding home They were roaring from their buildings Which were monuments to greed and fear And the science and logic that had failed And mines were merely silicon The aimless world had power to grasp the thunder And to dash it to the ground We were slow to come to anger We were slow to understand And we groped the words that might contain the rage And naked terror faded into shadows of despair Still we fought the rising madness of our age And we marched in tens of thousands While the cynics printed curses Because as usual they'd seen it all before And our freedom left us nothing But to turn to face to tyranny of silence Lest it blow away the dawn A dark and dreadful morning Of a limited exchange Force in motion made the planet reel The flash of sidelness wire ripped through avenues and highways And explosion breed explosion from within And the writhing earth in agony The bleeding smoking wasteland Where the winds sang songs of poison to the dawn And wondered while we waited If some beings out in space and time Were watching just another fading star Those who gained the shelters Where those who faced the judgement Of a pale and tragic sun upon our faces The crumbling ruins, the acid rain, the dull and dreary waiting The sickness and the anger and the pain And the broken flag poles won so proud Lay scattered on the cars and homes Friends of ours, we didn't even know And our memories closed upon a world That didn't see the morning And a cold wind blew to the corners of our souls