Wind-Up Birds - Guards Lyrics

They guard the hearts of the women and men
They'll swim through the muck just to save them
They keep it in check
It's the way to be
It all burns away eventually
They guard our minds from our wrong-ish thoughts
Tell us things that we weren't taught
Our new-wave views and our guilty garb
Our false confidence and our false alarms
This is a false alarm
They do no harm
They charm
The moral men and their moral panic
It's a feast for your eyes
It's dynamic
The moral men
This is a moral panic
It's a feast for your eyes
A feast for your eyes
They guard us from ourselves and more
Guard our spirits from the floor
Guard us like we'd guard ourselves
Guard us till we frame ourselves
Guard the good guys from the bad
They never branch out
They make the game sad
They break the knees and make up the faces
Till the good guys and the bad guys
They swap places
Take a look at their faces
Or their braces
They're not racist
The moral men with the moral panic
It's a feast for your eyes
It's dynamic
The moral men
This is a moral panic
It's a feast for your eyes
A feast for your eyes
Kill it dead stone
Burn it somewhere down
Break up
Break out
They guard the night
They guard it from the youths all right
They guard the youths in the balaclavas
Guard us and them in this grave palaver
They guard the dawn and they guard the dogs
Leave us guarded and they leave us in floods
Of empty arms and guarded stares
Guard us so hard
So we know they cared
Kill it dead stone
Burn it somewhere down
The moral men and their moral panic
It's a feast for your eyes
It's dynamic The moral men
This is a moral panic
It's a feast for your eyes