Homemade Valentine - Children 18:3

We wasted all our hopes on a whim

They let us down

It’s all coming down again

In the end, there was nothing left but questions

What started as a revolution

Petered out in guilty shame

We were set to change the world

We were at the helm of something big

It seems impossible that we should lose everything

Are you the only stranger?

And have you not seen?

We pasted all our hopes on him

Like the paper hearts on a homemade valentine

We wasted all our hopes on a whim

They let us down

It’s all going down again

Still it’s only three days past

Our king was cast and hope won’t last

But it was so much more than memories to haunt the past

Tell me if you understand

What could have been, what should have been

And if there’s comfort anywhere

It’s resting now beneath the sand

Are you the only stranger?

And have you not seen?

We pasted all our hopes on him

Like the paper hearts on a homemade valentine

We wasted all our hopes on a whim

They let us down

It’s all going down again

Oh, so foolish

Oh, hearts so hard

The bullets remind their hearts of bullets

Open your mind you’ll see