David Gray - Birds Without Wings lyrics

Wishing that something would happen A change in this place, 'cos I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping Find an empty package Take for a while Your trumpet from your lip Loosen your hold, loosen your grip On your old ways That have fallen out of step In a changing time Hoist a new flag Hoist a new flag Angry sun burn down Judging us all Guilty of neglect and disrespect And thinking small And d**h by boredom And d**h by greed If we can't stop taking More than we need But across the fractured landscape I find the same things Tired ideas Birds without wings Birds without wings Birds without wings And these are just thoughts On lack-lustre times I've no interest In excuses you can find Like you've had a hard day Now you've too tired to care Now you're too tired to care You've had a hard day Well across the fractured landscape I see the same things Tired ideas broken values Many with the notion That to share is to lose A hollow people bound by a lack Of imagination and too much looking back Without the courage To give a new thing a chance Grounded by this ignorance (and the cat comes) We're just, Birds without wings Birds without wings Birds without wings