So full of hope that he can't sit still
Even in the presence of strangers
He's expecting his favourite guest,
The boy with easy virtues
But when the boy arrives,
He's got a black eye
From the lads who plague us outside
He laughs and calls for the world to die,
Then hugs and kisses it better
**Chorus**
Tell him why do you go to extremes
And how it must show

He's half-full of courage and he
Stumbles to work,
Where they bitch about their babies
They ask him where he got his bruises,
He mumbles excuses, he lies and lies
He cannot allow them to finish him off
Over-heated, overwrought
He refuses to die like a saint,
Half-believed and always deceived

Chorus

Giving us grief for centuries now,
Can't you ever rest?
Beaten, insulted, skewered and branded
Isn't waking enough?
You're breathing this fear just once a year,
We suffocate every day
Hey you're breathing this fear just once a year,
We suffocate every day