Well here's a simple question Were it 1941 An army came, changed all the names And finished all your fun Who'd collaborate? Is it an easy thing to do And if fate was just a choice Who'd be on the side to lose? Swearing they did not know I swear I did not know Hindsight can be cruel sometimes I swear I did not know I was waiting in a restaurant Where officers would eat And my wife ran the hotel upstairs And she changed their dirty sheets They'd treat us good, at least as well As you'd expect to be We just did what we were told to do And then go home and sleep I swear we did not know I swear we did not know We did not have a crystal ball And had to bear a load Then came the deliverance The officers were gone The tables were left empty The hotel foreclosed on We found no love in our city We had nothing and no one We lived on food stamps Until I found work Selling soap in Avignon I swear we did not know I swear we did not know You lay with dogs, you catch their fleas Much later down the road So be careful who you're sleeping with 'Cause times have changed a bit The borders are more porous now They breach the walls with tricks You could be one of them yourself To someone, somewhere else Don't mark your hands with blindness Before all the cards are dealt 'Cause a change will always come.