View From The Hill

View From The Hill testo

You sit and htink that everything is coming up rosesBut you can’t see the weeds that entangle your feetYou can’t see the wood for the trees ‘cause the forest is burningAnd you say it’s the smoke in your eyes that’s making you cryThey sold you the view from a hillThey told you that the view from the hill would beFurther than you have ever seen beforeThey sold you a view from a hillThey sold you a view from a hillYou were a dancer and a chancer, a poet and a foolTo the royalty of mayhem you were breaking all the rulesYour decadence outstanding, your hopes flying highOne eye looking over your shoulder, one eye on the hillYou used to say you were scared of heights – you said you got dizzyYou said you didn’t like your feet being too far off the groundBut they said that up there you’d find the air would be clearerPromised you more space to move and more room to breatheThey sold you a view from a hillThey told you that the view from the hillIs further than you’d ever seen beforeYou were holding out forever – thought they’d never turn your mindYour ideals they were higher than you ever could have climbedWe thought they couldn’t buy you – that the price would be too highThat the riches there on offer they just wouldn’t turn your eyesBut your conscience it was locked up in the prisons of your schemesYour judgement it was blinded by your visions and your dreamsPraying and hoping that the view from the hillIs wider than you’ve ever seen beforeFor the view from the hill we held our heads so high (smell the roses)All the loved ones that you lied to are strangers left behindAll the ones that really mattered well you stood on as you climbedYou were holding out forever for your fathers and your peersHolding out for everyone that ever walked in hereThe edge was inside and you rode it all the wayYou were playing the games that you learned yesterdayHanging around like a fool with a nameYou are holding your place for the view, the view from a hillThey sold you the view from a hillLook it all for a view from a hillAnd you find the view’s no further than you’ve seen beforeThey sold you the view from the hillAnd you stood and took it all for the view from a hillIt’s simply coming up roses