Something Isn't Happening Songtext / Lyric

His eyes are dry, his skin's like nicotine

In lines that stretch to spell where youth has been

This epitaph in smoke has wreathed the door

You sense how much this air's been breathed before



Something isn't happening here

Something isn't happening here, it isn't like it should have been






The Bible belt they tighten one more hole

And crush the spirit so the save the soul

While those out on rafts without a single oar

Watched as the new wave crashed against the shore



Oh, but you don't have to ask who? or wherefore? or why, ma?

'Cos that's what it's there for and this might be Weimar

Don't give up the ghost when you give up your thanks

'Cos they send in the clowns before they send in the tanks

Something isn't happening here, oh no

Something isn't happening here, oh no



His eyes are dry, his skin's like nicotine

In lines that stretch to spell where youth has been

And this tear came from sitting on the fence

Snagged upon the pattern of events