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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
We were safe, now we're paralyzed Suspended in flight At this speed it makes no difference Where I start or where I end Or if you're sitting in an emergency aisle We could be dead, complete the equation Our names are x and n We have no value in these calculations Placed on a plane pointed straight down Traveling at five hundred feet per second Five thousand feet from the ground How long will it take us to hit? How fast until we start the disintegration? Don't die now Just keep moving Don't stop now Just keep moving How fast will it take us to hit? How long until we start the disintegration? We could be safe, now, forever Falling in the clean blue air Somewhere between the sun that gives us light And the ground that puts it out And we kneel in the aisles Press our hands together Close our eyes, speak these words so softly to the blackbox And it goes ""Mother, father can you hear this? I want to thank you for all your sweetness. I'm not coming home, never coming home again."" |
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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
The leaves will fall
And so will you When you do, bury me under them too Seconds pass; we’ll make it through Eventually we all go home It won’t be long It won’t be long We walk along the wire tied between horizons You close your eyes like it’s nothing at all Throughout the rise and fall, everything, everything Changes, I will be here when you die It won’t be long It won’t be long Until we find our way home Did you hear the trumpets play the day your father died? Did a violin swell those circles under your eyes? Did you play the part straight, like a marcher? Get lost in the beat, thinking and feeling Did the drums in the streets make the people dance? Or fall to their knees as the sound? Knock the leaves from the trees As they fall from the branch, the look beautiful As they hung in the air Spinning around Did you float in the air? Spinning around There must be somewhere that cigarettes burn through the night And the leaves don’t abandon their trees to the light Where the skies always clear And the summer never ends Won’t you take me there? The leaves will fall So will you When you do, bury me Under them too Seconds pass; we’ll make it through Eventually we all are going home |
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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
5-4-3-2-1 Lets start a fire.
Burn this town from inside out. Till no ones left alive. And you can’t feel the rhythm of your steps when you hit the street. Sixteen is so far away from here, when you’re counting every step. 5-4-3-2 what are you waiting for? The train is catching up, keep on running don’t look back. Cause its 10-9-8-7 everybody’s coming to burn this city, burn this city down tonight. Leave it all behind. All his life he lived in this same house. Same white fence surrounding him, he swore he would get out. But he can’t cause his foot got caught in between in the rails. And all his friends were all up ahead They can’t hear him yelling, yelling for some help. And it’s much too late to call the doctor now. This town is full of sympathies; we’re drowning in it all. 5-4-3-2 What are you waiting for? The train is catching up, keep on running don’t look back. Cause its 10-9-8-7 everybody’s yelling to burn this city, burn this city down tonight. Leave it all behind. This is the sound of the gate coming down, no flashing lights, no warning. When we press our ears to the ground we feel the shake. But it’s under the skin, so we welt like violets. Can’t get up, to put the petals in their place. 5-4-3-2 What are you waiting for? Burn this city, burn this city tonight. |
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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
We stare into the blinding light
to see whats between us it's red and it's white like lies, like lipstick on last-look good-byes the substance assimilating to watch the bodies burst into a string of lights when there's nothing left the party crashes and the rings come out from all the jacket pockets into the blinding light The fire is dying out and there's nothing left to burn except ourselves the cinema speaks as you take off your clothes and burst into dissimilation just let your body burst into a streak of light when there's nothing left the wedding crashes and the rings fall off roll out the bedroom window into the blinding light please someone help me--take away my lonliness, please someone fill me--take away my emptiness, please someone touch me--take away my longing and please someone, please someone, please someone show me the light... and the rings fall out like a silver snowfall into the blinding light. just make your body burst into single line when there's nothing left the heart rate crashes and the rings fall out as we turn each other into the blinding light white night coming down silent armies all around deep sleep covering enemies in clean white sheets (The sky went off-white, it snowed for fourteen years years, the sunlight splintered into all our darkest fears.) |
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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
There was a sound
Split all the heavens apart In on the northern view Out on the southern spark Oh I'll be with you running from the rain When it reaches the end of the line See myself reflected on the broken glass As the gates come crashing down There is blood on the tracks tonight And rust inside our veins We will make it time before the storm Running behind me There were some younger kids who followed the tracks that day It was a passing afternoon that came and took them away So we forgot our names lying in the tall grass under the billboard dreams Oh I'll be with you running from the rain When it reaches the end of the line See myself reflected on the broken glass As the gates come crashing down There is blood on the tracks tonight And rust inside our veins We will make it time before the storm It's running on. It's running out. It's running on. It's running out. Away, away, away. Running from the rain. Away, away, away. Running from the rain. I need to get them out It's the right time to crash is it not? You were all counting down, running on Running from the rain On the rearview mirror can you take it away? You got that car you brought on me Keep running knowing that you were coming back Running from the rain |
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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
What have you done? You followed footsteps in the dark You found your faith Left out behind your father’s car You said, “there’s no one watching over me, over you it’s always out of reach” I’m sick instead, write it into Oh my God, where are we now? Fractured lies Dissolving like sugar in the sacrament If it was just one night Then we would be relieved Tie this knot between our teeth Keep tearing open bottles Let it be Tonight Where have you gone? Off with the friends you couldn’t keep Your mother’s arms Fill up with all the empty needs So the ______ slide out to bring her in Comfort her And it’s always comforting When they start to sing, [The same old?] “Holy, Holy, lift up your dress. Feel your body Dissolving like sugar in the sacrament” If it was just one night Then you could be redeemed Tie this sin between your teeth Make hollow promises we’ll never keep Tonight This is all we’ve ever known of God Fight with me Let me touch you now This is all we’ve ever known of God Fight with me Let me touch you now! |
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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
She's the song that you tried to sing And the note that you couldn't hit So you locked her up in a music box Turn the key on all of us She spins silver strings in the dark With melody that ring in her heart When the cover drops The world just fades Away, away, away from her Waiting and waiting and waiting for her To say it K-I-S-S out on this street, I need someone to spell it out You know our love’s not unconditional A book of matches and a cigarette A love note that you never sent You can fold it up But you won't forget You can strike a match But it still might not light Now I'm the one that's stuck inside The silver cage The bird that can't fly away Clip its wings If it sings of The way, the way, the way that it hurt Waiting and waiting and waiting for her To say it K-I-S-S (out on this street) I need someone to spell it out You know our love’s not unconditional K-I-S-S (out on this street) there's nothing left to talk about You know our love's not unconditional F-I-D-E-L-I-T-Y You are (why) the song turned out this way Can’t you hear me when I say: “You're in my heart In my hands ’round my neck” We move like a carousel Streak lights and mirrors in our eyes It's time to let this go Can't stop spinning Around, around, around You know our love's not unconditional K-I-S-S (out on this street) I need someone to spell it out You know our love's not unconditional |
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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
Sitting alone in the dark of a stadium
He whispers his secrets into a cheap guitar With the flick of his wrist he turns words into melodies Chords into church bells, fill up the allies Lovers intwine in the heat of the night And by dawn are apart in the shivering silences We will pretend That its all just made up The songs that he writes Are too personal He cant play them for anyone When hes all alone, the lovesong writer sings Ooooh Can anyone, hear me now? No one hears him now So he stumbles through syllables, cut from their sentences Lost letters call to him, deep in the alphabet "Please give us meaning" Pose for me now You're the broken heart You're the sigh in the back of the throat And on the other side You're the queen of spades You're the sound that she makes on her way Theres always a way out Theres always a way out When hes all alone, the lovesong writer sings Ooooh Can anyone, hear me now? But no one hears at all The lovesong writer sits all alone When he hears the sound of the knock at the door 50 red roses, falling apart In the hands of someone that you scraped in and left behind All of the others strolled up and showed up at your door Staring you down, they said Sing for me, sing for me, sing for me now Sing for me, sing for me, sing for me now We already are |
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from Thursday - A City By The Light Divided (2006)
We walk alone
Till the end of night It's suicide But we will overcome Another life Swinging in the breeze The southern trees And the strangest route Follow the path, the straight and narrow (hand and hand) Our roads are paved with broken arrows We will overcome We will overcome Our fathers plant arms in foreign soil Our brothers die No one knows Where it ends (between the crosshairs) Our lives (weave a thousand deaths around us) Follow the path, the straight and narrow (hand and hand) Our roads are paved with broken arrows We will overcome We will overcome Follow the path, the straight and narrow (hand and hand) Our roads are paved with broken arrows We will overcome If no one sleeps tonight We will overcome If no one sleeps tonight We will wait for this We waited too long To see the Promised land We can’t wait no more We will stand up at the Promised land We will overcome Overcome |
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