Carrie Newcomer - The Madness You Get Used To lyrics

Violence for violence, time after time Putting those things right out of your mind Thinking this could never happen to you Just to those folks on the evening news Chorus: It's no big deal they say It's just the kind of madness you get used to It's a truth you always have known It's tough as sinew and bones And you don't get used to it Violence for violence, it just comes around It cries in the night with a desperate sound But where do you run when fear stalks your dreams How do you measure the weight of those things Chorus: It's no big deal they say It's just the kind of madness you get used to It's a truth you always have known It's tough as sinew and bones And you don't get used to it The strong will bet by, cause they always do The small and the helpless are counting on you Doesn't anybody notice, doesn't anybody care Doesn't anybody ever give a dam out there So up on the hill they fight like little children Arguing over who gets the crumbs Plotting and planning, cheating and scamming While the soul of a country Slowly gets numb It's no big deal they say It's just eh kind of madness you get used to