(by Tears For Fears) All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere
who's got to go and die They can put a man on the moon quite easy While people here on earth are dying of old diseases A woman goes to work every day
turn, you are always here I'll run this race until my earthly death I'll defend this place with my dying breath From a cheerless room In a curtain gloom, I saw a
fear Alone you stand with nobody near When a trembling distant voice, unclear Startles your sleeping ears to hear That somebody thinks They really found you. A
Uttering idle words from a reprobate mind, Clinging to strange promises, dying on the vine, Never bein' able to separate the good from the bad, Ooh, I
I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396 Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot Outside the Seven-Eleven store
in heaven It was nothing like the promised land Raised in a good christian house Underneath a good christian hand I was schooled down and dirty Signed a
race benighted? He becomes the Lamb that taketh Sin away and for aye full atonement maketh. For our life His own He tenders And our race, by His grace
killed them A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheel of a Cadillac A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest and a queer threw up
a new a ship. Come on, people, better climb on board. Come on, baby, now we're going home. Ship of fools, ship of fools. The human race was dying out
Day after day as I bodies slay And the sun becomes dark in the sky Everything's lost for this human race And the dawn of a new age will rise Rays of
Appearance is deceptive So perfect in disguise There?s more than what you see A semblance is protective A blinder for the eyes A place to hide and
your heart is in a race never, never lose a will we love dying men? oh Lord let me know the wonder oh Lord let me know it?s a cold, cold, cold christmas