I Don’t Know Why

There’s a spider in the bathroom curled into a little ball

There’s graffiti written neatly with an airbrush on the wall

There’s a madman in the White House preaching xenophobia

There’s a sad man in a lighthouse reaching for Utopia

And I don’t know why

I don’t know why

And I don’t know why

 

There’s a monkey out in orbit looking down upon the earth

There’s a country where you forfeit all your human rights at birth

There is discord in the orchestra that doesn’t strike a note

There’s a man who lives in Dorchester who wants to buy a goat

And I don’t know why

I don’t know why

And I don’t know why

 

There’s a car full of commuters sat in traffic jams all day

And children with computers rarely go outside to play

There’s a MP in my garden and he’s sitting on the fence

And a ground swell of opinion without any common sense

And I don’t know why

I don’t know why

And I don’t know why

 

There’s decisions to be taken without any guarantees

There’s a forest in the Amazon that’s running out of trees

There’s a black hole in the universe that doesn’t have a light

There’s a banker in the wardrobe and he’s itching for a fight

And I don’t know why

I don’t know why

And I don’t know why