When Will We Ever Learn

Bread and circus
Smoke and mirrors
Misplaced hope
Unfounded fears
Too many lies
Over too many years
When will we ever learn

Shoot the messenger
Stray from the path
Throw the baby
Out with the bath
Scream bloody murder
When we should laugh
When will we ever learn

Looking for love
In all the wrong places
Looking at people
Without seeing their faces
Making heroes
Out of public disgraces
When will we ever learn

We think we’re all right
But we’ve got it all wrong
We don’t know the tune
But we still sing the song
And we’ve been fooling
Ourselves all along
When will we ever learn