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 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 tell him why do you go to extremes and how it must show 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 