You Weren't There

Well, you say it's such a small, small world
 Flying Club Class back from the far-east
 Curled up safe and warm in the big chair
 You were drifting through the skies of anywhere
 Get the courtesy car to the Sheraton
 There's live on-the-spot reports on the CNN between the ad-breaks
 So you think you know what's going on - but you don't
 Because you weren't in Belfast, no you weren't there
 And no you weren't in Waco, no you weren't there
 And you weren't in Kosovo, you weren't there
 And you weren't in my head so you don't know how it felt
 Walking arm in arm with crowds to the square
 And the banners waving and the sun glinting
 All this information swims round and round
 Like a shoal of fish in a tank going nowhere
 Up and down between the glass walls
 You're so safe in the knowledge they're impenetrable
 And you look out at the world and see nothing at all
 So go back to sleep and you'll be woken when the time comes
 And you'll never know just what hit you or where it came from
 Because you weren't in Bradford, no you weren't there
 And you weren't on the hill, no you weren't there
 And you weren't with us so you never saw
 Just what happened when the television crews came knocking on the door
 How the people told them all to go to Hell,
 Smashed the cameras and sent them away
 There were sirens going off and policemen coming in
 And all that you love was being swept away
 In the rush of a black tide all done in your name
 And you'll never know just what happened there
 Or how it feels - just how it feels . . .