When Reason Sleeps

A man in a suit holds a gun to my head, talking in riddles I can't hear what he's saying,
the shade of his eyes turns from blue into red, I see him shaping words but the silence is dead,
he's got a girl on his arm a boy in his bed, one of no importance but she's clothed and she's fed,
the beautiful children are wrapped up inside under concrete & lead it's where they can hide.

Open the eye that never sees, open the mouth that never speaks.
You gave up the right to feel, gave up the right to breathe.

Here comes the cat with the flag in his hand, soles on his shoes and a shirt on his back,
selling me stories of hunger and pain, but he controls the tide and it's turning again,
he got a broken down car in a broken down dream, say's he's going crazy but it's not what it seems,
he leads with the left and then he swings to the right but the beautiful truth is from me you can't hide.

Open the eye that never sees, open the mouth that never speaks.
You gave up the right to feel, gave up the right to breathe.

I'll be there when reason sleeps,I'll be there.
Look when reason sleeps & I'll be there.

So throw down your gun and give up the flag, here comes the truth with the word in my hand,
while you've got the language and you got the signs, I don't want to walk on the edge of your knife,
pressure or pride won't hide your disease, I can smell your blood from a mile away,
parallel lines signify your fate, you're both stuck on the same blade.

Open the eye that never sees, open the mouth that never speaks.
You gave up the right to feel, gave up the right to breathe.

I'll be there when reason sleeps,I'll be there.
Look when reason sleeps & I'll be there.
 

Well the lyrics say it all really,there is not really any ambiguity here at all. It is a song about conscience and the lack of it,that hopefully there are enough conscientious and 'seeing' people around to guide us on and through the darker elements in our nature!