Only The Strong

When I last saw your family, they were running through a field
Running from the pack of wild dogs
But you said, “Hey forget it, it’s part of the deal
Let’s go inside, it’s getting dark”

Please shut it off, I have seen enough
There’s too many lovers and there’s not enough love
When the cowards run the cameras and the beautiful hide
You know only the strong will survive
Only the strong

So out of the bloodstream and into the smoke
You spoke to me through your glass darkly
And as they poured us another, man we laughed just like brothers
At least, that’s how it seems when you don’t know the others

But if all of the screaming in the other room
Is a warning of what is to come
Then those well-dressed barbarians, they will beat us senseless
With no rhyme and no reason, only rhythm
Only rhythm

Please shut it off, I have seen enough
There’s too many lovers and there’s not enough love
You can run the cameras, you can run and hide
But only the strong will survive
Only the strong

With every head bowed, with every eye closing
Someone says, “Last call for drinks”
It’s about 4 AM and we’re nothing but skin
There’s nothing within, all that’s without is about to cave in

Then we drift off to sleep so I don’t have to weep
The ruins of Rome, the children of the meek
The children of the meek

Please shut it off, I have seen enough
There’s too many lovers and there’s not enough love
The cowards run the cameras and the beautiful hide
And those who will live by the sword, they will die
Crying only the strong will survive
Only the strong