Say Your Prayers

                                  Don't want to live in a prison cell 

Don't want to live in a smoking room

Independence just won't come to you 

In the brief of a diplomat



Say your prayers for the future 

Say your prayers for the past 

It might be round the corner

It might be all we have

Say your prayers 



Don't want to live with a compromise 

Don't want to live with hypocrisy 

Bureaucracy doesn't have to win 

Breaks the cage of the beast within



Say your prayers in the boardroom 

Say your prayers on the stairs

It might be catastrophic 

It might be too damn bad 

Say your prayers 



I got the cure for compassion fatigue 

Spend a week with the Timorese

Running scared from the military 

You can share you can share your disease



Now we don't live with an absent master 

We don't live on an island divided

Don't want my kids to grow up in shame 

In a country with a different name 

Had to throw them out, had to break the chains



I got the cure for compassion fatigue 

Spend a week with the Timorese 

Running scared from the military 

I come to you with a plaintive plea