If you had looked, you might have just seen them
Stretched in the background
You'd see the oceans swell

And the mountains shook

You'd see a million colors

If you really looked
Now quick the night draws near
Her curtain spreads quicker

The safety's off

But the gun has no trigger.

If you had looked, you'd be no one's coward
Distance, justice, power
You'd glimpse the password


You wouldn't need the book
You'd own both slave and master

If you just had looked
But now the banks all closed


And nothing gets bigger
The crowd will yell
But the gun has no trigger.

If you had looked, you might reconsider

Or just maybe you already have

They watch you sleeping
You watch their garbage cook
You'd weep a bowl of tears

If you had looked

But now the gate comes down

The pangs are growing dimmer
You hold a gun to your head
But the gun has no trigger.