So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

Ooh, ooh

How I wish, how I wish you were here (ooh)
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year (year after year)
Running over the same old ground (oh)
What have we found the same old fears
Wish you were here

Wish you were here (wish you were here)
Wish you were here (wish you were here)
Wish you were here
The same old fears, wish you were here