You're standing on the only chair And you're singing to the screens and the moving stairs All on your own in the arrivals You heard it in the watchman's cry And you saw it in the bleeding evening sky You got a Swiss army in your pocket 'Cause here comes the blackout Now the hooded snake controls your mind It stole your eye on the 7th of July We've got to learn to love our neighbor Before our neighbor starts scaring the love out of us Before they frighten the love out of us In the story of the matchstick girl
She was freezing on the streets of Petersburg She lit a match and found a warmer world But here comes the blackout Now the hooded snake controls your mind It stole your eye on the 7th of July We've got to learn to love our neighbor Before our neighbor starts scaring the love out The hooded snake controls your mind It stole your eye So now we've got to learn to love our neighbor Before our neighbor starts scaring the love out of us, out of us