John Cale - So What lyrics

Less than a day when the speed of decision
Was taken while we waited outside
For savage ineptitude motionless spectacle
Into the glass of time

What do we learn from that?
What do we learn from that?
What do we learn from that?
The world goes round

What was replacing the fractured event
In the landscape of nobody left
One day you said you will return
Safer by far than the fools at the bar

What do we learn from that?
What do we learn from that?
What do we learn from that?
The world goes round

Inside the demand for a luxury hand
Lurks the context of misery's trend
How in the world can the trouble be found
When the movement's too fast
For that we're slow

What do we learn from that?
What do we learn from that?
But we learn from that
That's what we learn from that

A facet to be, facet to do
A shattered inevitable greed
You're walking on locusts
You like to do that
I can hear it when you talk

What do we learn from that?

The context decides if we live or we die
It comes to me when I'm alone
Your voice keeps me quiet until then
You should know by now if
We ever learn from that

Do we ever learn from that?