After Curfew

We found you in the street
With a list of all our names
There were stars beside the strongest and the weakest
They cut you quite a deal
Almost too good to refuse
But some of us don't just worship what's convenient
We thought that our distance was safe
But wickedness can travel
You are not fragile
You are not fragile
You are not fragile

And your father, rest his soul, the finest man I ever knew
Spoke a truth that was clean as an island
They gave him every chance
To repeat the party line
But he shattered their windows with his silence
So they took him out back in the rain
And they made him an example
You are not fragile
You are not fragile
You are not fragile

Now they're rounding up the boys in the nation off to war
And they left behind the two-faced and the useless
On the first of every month, neighbors gather on our lawn
And we dance for their mercy like we're minstrels
They dug up their headstones last night
And broke 'em into gravel
But you are not fragile
You are not fragile
You are not fragile