After Curfew

Lyrics

We found you in the street With a list of all our names There were stars beside the strongest and the weakest They cut you quite a deal Almost too good to refuse But some of us don't just worship what's convenient We thought that our distance was safe But wickedness can travel You are not fragile You are not fragile You are not fragile And your father, rest his soul, the finest man I ever knew Spoke a truth that was clean as an island They gave him every chance To repeat the party line But he shattered their windows with his silence So they took him out back in the rain And they made him an example You are not fragile You are not fragile You are not fragile Now they're rounding up the boys in the nation off to war And they left behind the two-faced and the useless On the first of every month, neighbors gather on our lawn And we dance for their mercy like we're minstrels They dug up their headstones last night And broke 'em into gravel But you are not fragile You are not fragile You are not fragile