Here We Go Again

The First Cut is the Deepest - A Prelude - MET - Chapter 51

Not for reasons, not for rhymes

It’s been like this since ancient times

Someone says they’re seeing signs

In the shape of lambs or lions

If you connect the dots between the stars

The truths we couldn’t live without

Suddenly they’re all in doubt

Soon there’re rumours going about

Soon all hell is breaking out

‘Cos we used to worship Venus now it’s Mars

Someone will sew a uniform

Someone else will make a flag

Pretty soon we’re saluting it

And marching up and down the drag

We thought it only happened when

The sword was mightier than the pen

But here we go again

We don’t have to know there names

To know where to apportion blame

Why should they admit their shame

If that’s the way it’s been arranged

All of them are hiding in plain sight

Who needs a conspiracy when anyone with eyes can see

There isn’t any mystery, just pride and greed and gluttony

Since they became our basic human rights

No, it isn’t much more interesting

Than the seven deadly sins,

Except they’re much more deadly now

Since they’re traded on the Dow

We thought it wouldn’t come again

Like history had reached the end but

Here we go again

Since then we’ve been running scared

Seeing shadows everywhere

While you’re looking somewhere else

History repeats itself

Suddenly we’re back where it was begun

Not for reasons, not for rhymes

It’s been like this since ancient times

Someone says they’re seeing signs

Connecting dots and drawing lines

And darkness falls across the noonday sun

We think we’re so much wiser than

All those women, all those men

But here we go again

We thought it happened way back when

But history’s on the march again

And here we go again

We thought it only happened when

The sword was mightier than the pen

But here we go again

But here we go again

Here we go again

Here we go again

Here we go again

Here we go again