Words on Overtime

Citizen Fish

Sometimes 
Something good 
Needs understating to be understood 
Needs towing back from the cliché status 
That empties meaning from the phrases 
Used so often - once they held 
The singularity of the bell 
Used so often - once they held 
The singularity of the bell 
When words on overtime ring false cheer 
Cos everyone's saying them, it numbs the ears 
Picking up catchlines 
The wrong word at the wrong time 
Lost your future friends 
The wrong word at the right time 
Started up a trend 
The right word at the right time 
Is only in your head 
Is only in your head 
Sometimes 
Something bad 
Needs overstating in a sense gone mad 
When pain fear and grief 
Become too easy to believe 
Then the feeling isn't coming through 
When we daily consume oversimplified gloom 
Reported by strangers 
We fear anything we're not set to receive 
And feel alienated 
So when someone's pain 
Gets in our faces 
We need to hear 
Different phrases 
That we can believe 
That we can believe 
That we can believe 
What kind of worlds have we created 
Where basic feelings need re-creating 
To avoid the perceptions of fiction and cliché 
Being received? 
How long before via screen mentality 
Will we all forget how to tell the reality 
Apart from the act? There's the duality 
Careful how you feed