As If We Didn't Know Lyrics

As if We Didn't Know (Pat Robinson) Through a satin covered window On a sea of gabardine Lies a bottle floating off the starboard bow And a once committed actress Who is long forgotten now If we can't protect the farmer Who protects the motherland Then we've given up the cure for vertigo We just fill the empty pages With some Edgar Allen Poe As if we didn't know As if it didn't show Just like it wasn't there As if we didn't go So her mother leaves the courtroom With the verdict in her hands As the doctor takes his final curtain call It's life and life only Someone has to take the fall Does no good to tell the hangman What you just said to the court In this game you're just another domino And you're undergoing treatment That he swears is apropos As if we didn't know As if it didn't show When you learn to look away Learn to say that it's ok As if you didn't know So they dig for buried treasure As they drink unfiltered rum With this writer from Tacoma growing cold And we're caught between injustice And that deadly undertow No option was overlooked for Frances On the horizon is a crossing Where three men hang in the mist As every story has an ending Every ending has a twist And it's taken all these centuries To get away with this 'Cause there has to be a sentence If our duty is to serve Just as destiny can take its final toll, you know Think of it as something That we're learning to outgrow As if we didn't know As if it didn't show It's like we don't believe In things that we can't see As if we didn't go As if we didn't know