When faith alone is not enough To keep our hands barely above We look for reason and come up empty-handed And when our children fight our wars While we sit back just keeping score Were teaching murder not understanding now We're setting the fires to light the way We're burning it all to begin again With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands We sing for change The lives our buried sons have laid We'll cancel debts we've yet to pay How could we justify anything now As long as we blindly obey And do exactly what they say We'll have no one to blame but ourselves now We're setting the fires to light the way We're burning it all to begin again With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands We sing for change We run on the fumes of injustice We'll never die with the fuel that you give us Keep it coming 'cause I'm prepared to burn Keep running from me at every turn Your life around (Into something true, into something true) So turn your life around (Into something true, something true) We're setting the fires to light the way We're burning it all to begin again With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands We sing for change

Lend me your walking stick And I lean on it And I walk on out through the snow bound yard Past the neighbours on the lawn Drinking last year out I leave this town, cut the year off clear Cauterized by leaving Sick and tired of living last year Roll out the tarmac and baptize the air craft Escaping loss and push me off The cold can bleach us out And freeze our doubt And all that you knew becomes muffled and mute But I'm done with it All this standing stiff When I move my mouth only snow comes out Euthanized by whiteness But I'll arise despite this last year So roll out the tarmac and baptize the aircraft Escaping loss and push me off Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind Should acquaintance be forgot And auld lang syne For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne X2