No Man's Land lyrics

Nobody asked you to be what you are

Nobody told you to go quite so far

Sometimes they need more than you have to give

Everyone demands the ultimate gift

And each fragile moment of every long day

You're frightened of failure in each word you say

Your wives and your children, family and friends

Will persecute you for each small accident

And nothing can save you, no one forgives

You were buried in envy the moment that you lived

And running and hiding will do you no good

Praying is wasted, you misunderstood

That the rules of the game were the ones that you laid

All those long years ago when you heedlessly played

At the role of creator from cradle to grave

So suffer in silence, you will never be saved

And all of the answers washed out in the sand

On a far distant shore of some unnamed dark land

Where the science of reason cannot yet expand

On the gospel of the martyrs, the nails in their hands

Crashing gracelessly forward through debris of fate

To the last bitter chapter, the terminal gate

The chains that you fashioned, you strain just to stand

Stumbling slowly, surely, into your own no man's land

• Artist:Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• Album:English Electric (2013)