The Madness You Get Used To - Carrie Newcomer

Violence for violence, time after time

Putting those things right out of your mind

Thinking this could never happen to you

Just to those folks on the evening news

Chorus: It’s no big deal they say

It’s just the kind of madness you get used to

It’s a truth you always have known

It’s tough as sinew and bones

And you don’t get used to it

Violence for violence, it just comes around

It cries in the night with a desperate sound

But where do you run when fear stalks your dreams

How do you measure the weight of those things

Chorus: It’s no big deal they say

It’s just the kind of madness you get used to

It’s a truth you always have known

It’s tough as sinew and bones

And you don’t get used to it

The strong will bet by, cause they always do

The small and the helpless are counting on you

Doesn’t anybody notice, doesn’t anybody care

Doesn’t anybody ever give a dam out there

So up on the hill they fight like little children

Arguing over who gets the crumbs

Plotting and planning, cheating and scamming

While the soul of a country

Slowly gets numb

It’s no big deal they say

It’s just eh kind of madness you get used to