Far Better Thing Lyrics - New Model Army

In the white washed cancer ward with my hot blood running wild 

I see the pain behind your eyes and the search for a reason 

And the knowing and the fear of the passing season 

Now please give me strength to cut and to keep our secret 

Please give me strange to cut 

That the things we love may remain here still 

There is time to wait and there's a time to kill 

I see your outstretched hand through the closing door 

But it's a far better thing I do than I have done before 

And so it seems that murder's not so hard - I've eaten flesh and blood each day 

And if I believe the things I write through the passing season 

Then with a rifle in my hand and with a thousand reasons 

I'll wait, far above the crowd in the summer sunshine 

And history changes now, forever 

That the things we love may remain here still 

There is time to wait and there's a time to kill 

From the barren land come the seeds of war 

So it's a far better thing that I do than I have done before