08 Violet Hill

[00:36.06] It was a long and dark December

[00:38.34] From the rooftops I remember

[00:41.38] There was snow, white snow

[00:48.20] Clearly I remember

[00:50.98] From the windows they were watching

[00:54.02] While we froze down below

[01:00.83] When the future's architectured

[01:03.61] By a carnival of idiots on show

[01:09.68] You'd better lie low

[01:12.72] If you love me, won't you let me know?

[01:24.85] Was a long and dark December

[01:27.37] When the banks became cathedrals

[01:30.65] And a fox became God

[01:37.20] Priests clutched onto Bibles

[01:40.23] Hollowed out to fit their rifles

[01:43.03] And a cross was held aloft

[01:50.33] Bury me in armour

[01:53.15] When I'm dead and hit the ground

[01:55.44] My nerves are poles that unfroze

[02:02.31] And if you love me, won't you let me know?

[02:38.53] I don't want to be a soldier

[02:41.08] Who the captain of some sinking ship

[02:44.12] Would stow, far below

[02:50.42] So if you love me, why d'you let me go?

[03:02.78] I took my love down to Violet Hill

[03:09.39] There we sat in snow

[03:14.19] All that time she was silent still

[03:18.74] Said if you love me, won't you let me know?

[03:27.09] If you love me, won't you let me know?