[Verse 1]
The satellites are raining down on the international room
There's nothing secret, nothing sacred anymore
All the soldiers of the world are turning history around
They're with me now, they're breaking down the door

[Chorus]
Pictures in a room - I can't take it anymore
Pictures in a room - somebody help me please
'Cause I can't sing the paeans of hope
In a torn world (Yeah)

[Verse 2]
One mother's daughter's seen her brothers taken to the shadowlands
Now she's waiting for six soldiers to return
And another mother's daughter's down on Channel 21
She's opened up her life to let it burn

[Verse 3]
And the satellites are raining down on a Sunday afternoon
She's open for the world to take it all
Where we face our sweetest demons in the hands of flesh and love
She's aching at the stations of the fall

[Chorus]
Pictures in a room - I can't take it anymore
Have I awakened to a strange land
Pictures in a room - somebody help me please
'Cause I can't sing the paeans of hope
In a torn world
[Bridge]
And the company say, give us more of these
Big songs of hope and cheer
Hits and hooks and riffs that shine as new
And the refugees come in, live and dying
Miles across the snow
And there's nothing that this stunning world can do
Pictures in a room

[Chorus]
Pictures in a room - I can't take it anymore
Have I awakened to a strange land
Pictures in a room - somebody help me please
'Cause I can't sing the paeans of hope
In a torn world
Pictures in a room - I can't take it anymore
Have I awakened to a strange land
Pictures in a room - somebody help me please
'Cause I can't sing the paeans of hope
In a torn world