Say awhile, when I'm not alone   I forget all the anger in me   Kiss a tear when the hammer falls   They're holding me here in never ending circles   I can still remember summer madness   I can taste the perfume on your cheek   The heat is overcome by coldness--How   Consoling words are insignificant    Say you'll pray      Justify the actions   These are days of the mob-rule, sharp tongue, curfew   When the mind is in solitary confinement--   Makes the mood that breaks you   There's a spirit seeking liberation   Here's a fire with a hungry heart   If I listen maybe, time will tell me   The reasons why we're torn apart      As the years go by   Don't make any false promises   As the years go by   Say you'll pray      Here the silence is too loud   In a steel barred jail on the other side   We invented the differences   That weaved the web with which we lied   Caught in the middle of a cold war zone   I left my lover in a far-off place   She'll kiss a tear when the hammer's falling   And wipe the darkness from my face      As the years go by   Don't make any false promises   As the years go by   Just say you'll pray