Nothing Is Innocent

Over the Rhine · The Trumpet Child [2007]

We'd wake the dead with the voices in our head

We've gotten used to ignoring the truth

We close our eyes and breathe and eat the lies

That tell us we're so much better than you



Silence is loud

Humility is so proud

Nothing is innocent now



All the king's men will serve scrambled eggs again

When white washed walls come on crashing down

We'll blink and nod and say, how odd

And wonder why old friends don't come around



Silence is loud

Humility is so proud

Nothing is innocent now



The acid rain, we fear the pain

Will blister and burn the skin

But what is more, the fear we bore

Will eat us alive from within



Silence is loud

Humility is so proud

Nothing is innocent now



For you and me, yeah

In the land of the free

Nothing is innocent now

Nothing is innocent now

Nothing is innocent now