Just to say we're sorry   For the black eyes and bleeding lips   When it's hard to forget   How many lies we told      Or how we'd grow   Before I said goodbye   So let's scrape our knees   On the playground      It's not your fault   You feel okay   It's too late in the day   It's not your fault   You feel betrayed   And can't come now to play      I never listened to a word   You never said   I never listened to a word   You never said      Wasting the hours now   We're all suckers for tragedies   And start this over again   And you bring us to our knees      As sunrise comes   And the story will sell   A few hundred papers   So we'll follow you up      It's not your fault   You feel okay   It's too late in the day   It's not your fault   You feel betrayed   And can't come out to play      I never listened to a word   You never said   I never listened to a word   You never said      So raise your hands up high   And let this rain pour on   So raise your hands up high   And wash us away      Like innocence and childbirth   You look just like your mother   And you look just like your father      Forgive him, our father   Your son is smiling   So lay roses around you