Tunnel Vision-Kate Tempest

[00:17.88]Indigenous apocalypse, decimated forest, the Winter of our discontent’s upon us [00:22.05]Desolate apostles, left with Strongbow at the crossroads [00:24.72]We are nothing but an eating mouth, oesophagus, colossal [00:27.44]We won’t stop until we’ve beaten down the planet into pellets [00:29.64]Before the interstellar mission to inflict more terror [00:32.00]It’s killing me, it’s killing me, it’s filling me, I’m vomiting, it’s still in me [00:36.10]Everything is fine really, silly me [00:37.66]Poor kids shot dead [00:39.12]Poor kids locked up [00:40.30]Poor kids saying, “This is the future that you left us?” [00:42.51]Stopped up lunch meat, processed, punch from an unclean fatcat [00:45.29]Tasty, tasty poison [00:47.40]Carcinogenic, diabetic, asthmatic, epileptic, post-traumatic, bipolar and disaffected [00:51.78]Atomised, thinking we’re engaged when we’re pacified [00:54.82]Staring at the screen so we don’t have to see the planet die [01:02.35]What we gonna do to wake up? [01:04.70]We sleep so deep it don’t matter how they shake us [01:07.37]If we can’t face it, we can’t escape it [01:09.71]But tonight the storm’s come [01:12.28]She’s screaming, she’s screaming [01:13.44]The drone’s turned her beautiful boy into a pile of bones [01:16.31]No body to bury, nobody is home [01:18.73]Running from war, the boat’s full, the boat’s sinking a mile off shore [01:22.57]No beds in the hospitals, our minds are against us [01:24.92]Imagine your daughter was gunned down defenceless on her way to school [01:28.65]There’d be uproar [01:30.00]But she’s collateral damage, it doesn’t matter [01:31.45]Now if our kids are fine, that’s enough for us [01:34.05]You can’t love into a vacuum, there’s got to be a limit [01:36.63]Welcome to the biggest crime that’s ever been committed [01:39.15]You think you and I are different kinds, you’re caught up in specifics [01:41.62]You and I apart are easier to limit [01:44.26]The illusion’s so complete it’s impossible to bring it into focus [01:46.63]Cinematic stock footage, you think people are locusts [01:49.73]Uniform men keep unleashing explosives [01:51.85]What we gonna do to wake up? [01:54.14]We sleep so deep it don’t matter how they shake us [01:56.75]If we can’t face it, we can’t escape it [01:58.98]But tonight the storm’s come [02:02.03]Tunnel vision, tunnel vision [02:03.36]Work, drinks, heartbreak [02:04.63]You can’t face the past, the past’s a dark place [02:06.66]Can’t sleep, can’t wake, sitting in our boxes [02:08.77]Notching up our victories as other people’s losses [02:11.59]Another day, another chance to turn your face away from pain [02:15.24]Let’s get a takeaway [02:15.99]And meet me in the pub a little later, we’ll say the same things as ever [02:18.78]Life’s a waiting game [02:20.33]When we gonna see that life is happening? [02:22.51]And that every single body bleeding on its knees is an abomination [02:25.84]And every natural being is making communication [02:28.94]And we’re just sparks, tiny parts of a bigger constellation [02:32.23]We’re miniscule molecules that make up one body [02:35.08]You see the tragedy and pain of a person that you’ve never met [02:39.17]Is present in your nightmares, in your pull towards despair [02:42.13]And the sickness of the culture, and the sickness in our hearts [02:45.43]Is a sickness that’s inflicted by this distance that we share [02:48.55]Now it was our bombs that started this war [02:52.01]And now it rages far away [02:53.49]So we dismiss all its victims as strangers [02:55.34]But they’re parents and children made dogs by the danger [02:58.59]Existence is futile, so we don’t engage [03:01.73]But it was our boats that sailed, killed, stole, and made frail [03:05.81]It was our boots that stamped [03:08.73]It was our courts that jailed [03:09.30]And it was our ******’ banks that got bailed [03:11.22]It was us who turned bleakly away [03:12.90]Looked back down at our nails and our wedding plans [03:15.09]In the face of a full-force gale, we said [03:17.51]“Well it’s not up to us to make this place a better land [03:21.25]It’s not up to us to make this place a better land.” [03:24.77]Justice, justice, recompense, humility [03:28.22]Trust is, trust is something we will never see [03:31.55]Till love is unconditional [03:33.13]The myth of the individual has left us disconnected, lost, and pitiful [03:38.66]I’m out in the rain [03:40.37]It’s a cold night in London [03:42.61]And I’m screaming at my loved ones to wake up and love more [03:46.56]I’m pleading with my loved ones to wake up and love more