Dancing On Volcanoes

You'll ask me for a cigarette

But we don't go out anymore

Who becomes your Mother?

And who becomes your Father?

The dictators are dictating

We'll keep dancing on volcanoes

Has it changed beyond measure?

Have all the foundations gone?

Have we found a new clever?

Are we all here because of trauma?

Did we all lose something somewhere?

Do you remember when you were nine or ten

When everything shattered?

You'll ask me for a cigarette

But we don't go out anymore

Who becomes your Mother?

And who becomes your Father?

The dictators are dictating

We'll keep dancing on volcanoes

And I was never any good at being young

You lose and you win some

She came in from the West

Whatever that means

The grit of time got stuck

Between my teeth

You'll ask me for a cigarette

But we don't go out anymore

Who becomes your Mother?

And who becomes your Father?

The dictators are dictating

We'll keep dancing on volcanoes

Are we all here because of trauma?

Did we all lose something somewhere?

Do you remember when you were nine or ten

When everything shattered?

You'll ask me for a cigarette

But we don't go out anymore

Who becomes your Mother?

And who becomes your Father?

You'll ask me for a cigarette

But we don't go out anymore

Who becomes your Mother?

And who becomes your Father?

The dictators are dictating

We'll keep dancing on volcanoes