Wishing that something would happen   A change in this place   'Cause I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping   Find an empty package      Take for a while   Your trumpet from your lip   Loosen your hold, loosen your grip   On your old ways   That have fallen out of step   In a changing time   Hoist a new flag   Hoist a new flag      Angry sun burn down   Judging us all   Guilty of neglect and disrespect   And thinking small      And death by boredom   And death by greed   If we can't stop taking   More than we need      But across the fractured landscape   I find the same things   Tired ideas   Birds without wings   Birds without wings   Birds without wings      And these are just thoughts   On lack-lustre times   I've no interest   In excuses you can find      Like you've had a hard day   Now you're too tired to care   Now you're too tired to care   You've had a hard day      Well across the fractured landscape   I see the same things   Tired ideas, broken values   Many with the notion   That to share is to lose   A hollow people bound by a lack   Of imagination and too much looking back   Without the courage   To give a new thing a chance   Grounded by this ignorance      (and the cat comes)   We're just   Birds without wings   Birds without wings   Birds without wings