Paralyzed I look out to the fields Where blood is shed upon the ground I breathe in and breathe out, Change the channel, mute the sound I take a match, a cigarette And a walk to clear my head My stomach's reeling at the thought Of all those human beings dead
I breathe in, I breathe out Then go down to do an interview About a song, three minutes long I just need something to do Especially when my dearest friend Was sent to cover Kosovo His last assignment brought a bullet And now he's gone
chorus Feels like I'm fiddlin' While Rome is burning down Should I lay my fiddle down Take a rifle from the ground I need the ghosts to breathe a northern gale tonight
'cause I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed
I packed his book up left to office Went to tell the wife the news She feel in shock The baby kicked and she'd a tear inside the womb I breathed in I breathed out Soaked the ground up with my eyes It's hard to say a healing word When your tongue is paralyzed
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I breathe in I breathe out I breathe in I breathe out I breathe in I breathe out I breathe in I breathe out