Tripwire Lyrics - Wise Up Ghost - Elvis Costello & The Roots

Just because you don't speak the language 

Doesn't mean that you can't understand 

Just because you don't speak the language 

Doesn't mean that you can't understand 

The twist in the script of the insult 

Scrawled on the back of your hand 

Torn from the pages of scripture 

Sprayed on the wall in the frays of a flag 

Kisses forbidden on lips 

And all of your fine clothes worn into rags 

Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire 

There's a tripwire 

Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire 

Don't open the door 'cos they're coming 

Don't open the door 'cos they're here 

Above there's an ominous humming 

Below there's a murmur of prayer 

Torn from the pages of scandal 

Sprayed on a wall in the frays of the flag 

Kisses forbidden on lips 

And all of your fine clothes blown into rags 

Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire 

There's a tripwire 

Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire 

There's a cross in the line there's a circus 

There's a voice that you might overhear 

There's a lens making the picture perfect 

They say you have nothing to fear 

Torn from the pages of pamphlets 

Thrown in the air like confetti in church 

Far, far away there's a target 

And the sound of an army just starting to march 

Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire 

There's a tripwire 

Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire 

Just because I don't read the language 

Doesn't mean that I'm blind to the threat 

Though I thought there was more to forgiveness 

Than all we conveniently forget 

Torn from the pages of history 

Repeated again and again and again 

You're either for or against us 

And that is how the hatred begins 

Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, tripwire 

There's a tripwire 

Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire...