The time we knew nothing about The promises made, hidden from doubt The things we were told before we were old Our weakness foretold our losses yet to come ♪ They herded us up to wait in a line None of us noted the passage of time A book with a page on the cruelty of age And the wars they would wage in the name of our unhappy sons ♪ Our friends have not abandoned us yet Sisters and Brothers! Decisions regret Of passion bereft when nothing is left But the emptiness that became the only thing we knew ♪ Last night, I woke from a shout The glow of the street light shone from without The dust of our dreams suspended in beams In the hollow place that once belonged to you