[Chorus]
Oh, Polyxena, shield your eyes from the sun
Just for a second, just for a second more
You can still let this world stay a happy one
For just one more second, your life's only begun, begun

[Verse 1]
I saw in my mind's eye, the crumbling castles
Disasters raining like fallen arrows
This is just the way things are
For women like me, whispers in the hallways
Always observing, always in shadows
This is just the way things are

[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, I didn't want this for you, but what could I do?
So listen to me sing a little longer, soon the darkness comes with all the monsters
Look around, thе fields are full of songbirds' closing words

[Chorus]
Oh, Polyxena, shiеld your eyes from the sun
Just for a second, just for a second more
You can still let this world stay a happy one
For just one more second, your life's only begun, begun

[Verse 2]
Stories as old as they are unkind
Wrong time, wrong place, not our war to wage
This is just the way things are
Another girl caught up in the crosshair
Not fair to ask for war, and then take more
This is just the way things are
[Bridge]
Ooh, I didn't want this for you, but what could I do?
What could I do?
What could I do? (What could I do?)
What could I do? (What could I?)
What could I do? (What could I?)
What could I do? (What could I?)
What could I do?
Oh, God, what can I do
When this is what it's come to?
Want this city on fire, but it's already done
It's all funeral pyres, nothing left to be won
So I'll sit here, and I'll watch her
There's no mercy for the conquered
But I won't go quiet, no, I can't let them win
So at least I can sing when the knife goes (in)

[Chorus]
Oh, Polyxena, shield your eyes from the sun
You leave a world that doesn't deserve your love
But just for a second, just for a second more...