Cassius, –

Past my window, out in the street

Life makes short work of all I see

Men take the change from beggars

Tight bound in sheets

Red and blue, the useless sirens scream

The song of masses, passing outside

All inciting the fifth of July

When guns for hire open fire, blind against the dawn

When the knights in iron took the pawn

You and I, out into the night

Held within the line that they've drawn

As I went they're all beside us in silence

As if unaffected amid the violence

Ooh, are we also tamed?

I was in a river, as if in water

Wife, a son, a son, a son, and a daughter

Ooh, are we also tamed?

I walked home, no words to say

Cassius, one month gone on his way

And who will lead us and who remains to die?

By a thread, drop my head to cry

As I went they're all beside us in silence

As if unaffected amid the violence

Ooh, are we also tamed?

I was in a river as if in water

Wife, a son, a son, a son, and a daughter

Ooh, are we also tamed?

Ooh

Ooh

Ooh