[Intro, spoken] Turning and turning in the widening guy-er The falcon cannot hear the falconer [Verse 1] They are burning cars in Montreal Smashed the windows, torched the hall Paris banned the march, and they marched Tear gas on the boulevards A town hall burned in France that year Milan's station full of broken glass Sixty policemen bled in Italy And the ports were choked with waving flags [Chorus] Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned [Post-Chorus] The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passion and intensity [Verse 2] Foucault flew to Tehran And blessed the revolution The mullahs took the country His friends took the rope They did not come to build a world They came to watch the world churn No god above, no law below and danced while children burned. [Chorus] Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned [Post-Chorus] The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passion and intensity [Bridge, spoken] Turning and turning in the widening guy-er The falcon cannot hear the falconer Turning and turning in the widening guy-er The falcon cannot hear the falconer [Verse 3] They carried out the coffins Through the streets of Khan Younis Kfir was nine months old and Ariel was four And the crowd pressed in and cheered Cheered at coffins in the sun A professor praised the pirates Who seized a ship in the Red Sea The Houthis held her crew four hundred days And sent boys of thirteen to die [Final Chorus] Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned [Post-Chorus] The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passionate intensity [Outro, voice alone] The falconer calls No answer comes
