So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
'Cause we're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
And how we found
The same old fears

Wish you were here
'Cause we're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Year after year
Year after year
Year after year
Year after year

I wish you were here

(Running over the same old ground
And how we found
The same old fears...)