We'll turn away in a passive decision   We'll take the steps through the unmarked door   A look back for another collision   But the boys of the spires   Are boys no more      Not black and red boys   Frightened by the night   By the Catholic monochrome   The Catholic girls now   Stark in their dark and white   Dread in monochrome   the Sisters of Mercy   High tide   Wide eyed   Sped on adrenochrome   For the Sisters of Mercy   Filled with   Panic in their eyes   Rise   Dead on adrenochrome      We had the power   We had the space   We had a sense of time and place   We knew the words   We knew the score   We knew what we were fighting for   For the freedom   The time to choose   But time to think    Is time to lose   The signals clash   And disappear   The shade too loud   And the sound unclear   For the      High tide   Wide eyed   Dread in monochrome   Denied in spite   Disliked in monochrome   Panic in their eyes   Rise   Dead and monochrome   The Sisters of Mercy   Spite   On adrenochrome      The way is clear   The road is closed   The damage done   And the course   Imposed you      [repeat 1 & 2]