This Isn’t Goodbye

This isn't goodbye
We'll be dying again
I don't know why
And I don't know when

All the time that we killed
We'll kill it again
Heaven knows why
Heaven knows when

These poisonous times
Through which we travailled
Silenced pistols emerged
Through widows' veils

To have taken them on
The scum of the earth
And not come through alive
And not have survived

But this isn't goodbye
We'll be back again
We've lived this beforе
We'll live it again

That first tentativе clinch
At the observatory door
When you gave in an inch
At Mount Palomar

How could we forget
The rush of the hope?
We're reliving it now
In Cinemascope

To have taken them on
The scum of the earth
And not come through alive
And not have survived

But this isn't goodbye
It's just au revoir
They'll need us again
Fighting the power

Our moment will come
To be dying again
Heaven knows why
Heaven knows when