Protecting The Hive lyrics - Belle & Sebastian

 Strangely my dreams just seem to get farther out

The more we stay in the one room, my sleep wants to shout

About my lovers and others and my friends from the past

When the world was a party, we all had a blast

It's hard to escape the coming feeling of dread

The streets are still full of people, they're worried to death

I work on a paper and I read on the wires

They're making plans for disaster, the leadership lies

I only believe what I can see with my eyes

And I never understood why people pray when they die

I never understood the desperation feeling till now

Coming round to the idea, I'm taking a vow

I'm here in my teenage bedroom staring at flowers

That he bought at the weekend when the weekend was ours

Now the colours are fading like it's 1944

I'm waiting for my fiancé to come back from the war

I only believe what I can see with my eyes

I never understood why people pray when they die

I never understood the desperation feeling till now

Coming round to the idea, I'm taking a vow

The dress I wanna wear tonight hangs lonely on a hook

And the only excitement is my paperback book

I thought I loved him and the absence makes me randy as hell

But then it could be illusion, I'm stuck down a well

I only believe what I can see with my eyes

And I never understood why people pray when they die

I never understood the desperation feeling till now

Coming round to the idea, I'm taking a vow

It feels like everything tonight has come to an end

The lonely blackbirds are singing, I'm missing my friends

I'm making cup cakes and waiting for my soldier to survive

We're in a war of submission protecting the hive

I only believe what I can see with my eyes

And I never understood why people pray when they die

I never understood the desperation feeling till now

Sign me up for conversion, I'm taking a vow