Broken Circles - The Levellers

Fired forty rounds in the centre of town

He thought to bring the world around

Sleepless nights with God and Christ

The New Messiah

Burn the world to change the days

Can be done in better ways

But to make news and front page

You’ve got to aim higher

They didn’t build Jerusalem

They didn’t find the land

For reasons of security

They couldn’t find the plans

And we’re left standing watching from below

No new songs and no new heroes

Standing on the sidelines watching the flow

Waiting for the day the circle’s broken

Took the mic to save day

The rock star’s going to have his say

Interpret this in any way as if it matters

Cos nothing’s black and nothing’s white

Nothing appears to be quite right

It’ll be this way until the day

The circle’s shattered

I hear an old song yesterday

About a better world

You know the story

Well, They’re all the same

The boy gets the girl

And we’re left standing watching from below

No new songs and no new heroes

Standing on the sidelines watching the flow

Waiting for the day the circle’s broken

From the tips of your fingers

The rest is numb

You begin to feel the warmth of the sun

It’s taking away been taking away

All you once knew

Taking it back takes all you’ve got

No time to sit and watch it rot

Believe it’s yours and not the lies

Or all hell to you

They didn’t build Jerusalem

They didn’t find the land

For reasons of security

They couldn’t find the plans

And we’re left standing watching from below

No new songs and no new heroes

Standing on the sidelines watching the flow

Waiting for the day the circle’s broken