Different Strokes - Declan Welsh and The Decadent West

Semitones and buried bones

King Suleiman says to be in the taxi by 4

We barter for starters

They pray for the martyrs

Ma maw wishes I’d give her a call

The walls that they’re building

The calmness of children

Gassed as they were kicking a ball

What’s it going to take this time

What’s it going to take to change your mind

When everything is cosy and fine

What’s it going to take to change your mind

My friend Sa’id

Covered his heid

With a balaclava

Cause soldiers remember a face

Ten years since his cousin

One in twenty-dozen

Was ended before he had begun

And that’s why we stand here

Me trembling in fear

Forty-five degrees in the sun

What’s it going to take this time

What’s it going to take to change your mind

When everything is cosy and fine

What’s it going to take to change your mind

What’s it going to take to change your mind

And after the melee

They sheltered and fed me

And then they sent us on our way

Often I wonder if under the sun there

Whether they are marching today

What’s it going to take this time

What’s it going to take to change your mind

When everything is cosy and fine

What’s it going to take to change your mind

What’s it going to take to change your mind