We Were Younger Then

Arab Architects

Are strung up by their necks

Singing

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Blessed be the lord

And now I'm drifting through the streets

Drinking gypsy wine saying

I can't believe how strange it is to be alive right now

I see the good people trying

I remember when comfort was not an option

(But we were younger then)

Disciplined and strange

Focused and restrained

We were younger then

If you need some quiet time

To process all that guilt

Well the desert lasts for days and out there

There's nothing else to do

Round here they turn ocean into land

And sell that land for gold

Use that gold to build themselves bigger better homes

I see cranes on the horizon

I remember when comfort was not an option

(We were younger then)

Disciplined and strange

Focused and restrained

We were younger then

When I go to sleep

I hardly ever dream

And when I'm wide awake

I can't believe what I see

I see the good people trying

I remember when comfort was not an option

(We were younger then)

Disciplined and strange

Focused and restrained

We were younger then

When I go to sleep

I hardly ever dream

When I'm wide awake

I can't believe what I see

Only in pictures before have I seen

Anything like from where I am standing

Looking I can't tell where the city stops

And the nothing begins

Only in pictures before have I seen

Anything like from where I am standing

Looking I can't tell where the city stops

And the nothing begins, begins, begins

(And the nothing begins)

Only in pictures before have I seen

Anything like from where I am standing

Looking I can't tell where the city stops

And the nothing begins, begins, begins

(We were younger then)

Only in pictures before have I seen

(We were younger then)

Anything like from where I am standing

(We were younger then)

Looking I can't tell where the city stops

(We were younger then)

And the nothing begins, begins

(We were younger then)