So now it’s decided; it’s out in the open, it’s all clear
So now, we’re divided
Burnt down burnt out, cropped sheer my dear, I fear
Now it’s all broken and the poison is placed in the trap
So tell me how to pretend with conviction
And survive in this mire of contradiction

So what about this fruit of love
Tell me how to protect it from the hail of hate
x2
That lays in wait
That lays in wait

How to keep up appearances in this neglected garden that’s me
How to explain disappearances to these innocent victims you see
So now I’m a painless shroud, I’m pulling all the shots
A prisoner of my soul, my mind, my body
At night I rattle the door handles; I try to keep lost

So what about this fruit of love
Tell me how to protect it from the hail of hate x 4
That… lays in wait

I can’t help it if this is just a small town, and everybody knows your business
Well, I can’t help it if this is just a small town and everybody knows your business
I can’t help it if this is such a small town and everybody knows your business

Maybe better to keep up appearances
Maybe, Maybe

Well the pebbles on this beach are not quite within my reach although
I’d like to take some home, yeah, I’d like to take some home with me
In memory

It’s so hard to make a stance, not to feel we’re one last chance

And we’re clean out of dreams
We’ve become a foreign sound, a kaleidoscope of brown
A sure thing to bring you down

Can’t you see that a change is coming and the view’s so different from here?
Tell me something to prove, we’ve nothing to fear
Will you be that courage for me?

Tell me please, will you be that courage for me?
But I never had the chance to ask you
No I never had the chance to ask you

The pebbles on this beach slide slowly into reach, or that’s how it seems
Like I finally found something where no one can intervene
Where the truth can come finally clean, I’m sure you know what I mean

It’s so hard to make a stance, not to feel we’re one last chance

And we’re clean out of dreams
We’ve become a foreign sound, a kaleidoscope of brown
A sure thing to bring you down

Can’t you see that a change is coming and the view’s so different from here?

Tell me something to prove, we’ve nothing to fear
Will you be that courage for me?

Tell me please will you be that courage for me?

But I never had the chance to ask you
No I never had the chance to ask you
No I never had the chance to ask you
No I never had the chance to ask you
I never had the chance to ask you nor to say goodbye
No I never, never, never, never never never never never never…