i would say that we saw this coming
if i thought it would change a thing
but at some point, we all stop running
some finish the race while some save their strength
and a day is coming soon when the banner of youth
will be dropped somewhere between
writing songs in our parents basement
and basing our lives on what they mean
so if this is the last time
leave it all under these lights
we've played out our lives on these stages
just to be buried with pages of songs left unsung
this is the last time
give us something to take home
a last line to sing
cause these half empty glasses
with stress cracks and fractures
can only grow so weak
before they break and spill out a dead language
that we've forgotten how to speak
and this is the last time
we'll all hang for the same crime
we buried the axe in the walls of these old village halls
just to claim that we were there
and this is the last time
(better to sink than to yield
better to lay down the shield
better to claim what we can
than be surprised when it ends
better to guess where we're going
the glass house before the throwing
better to know when to run
then face what we all become)
so raise, raise your glass to the ones
who gave their youth
so we could sing along
and this is the last time
you'll hear me apologize
i'll be that rope that you tied
'round your wrist to remind you
what idle hands have done.
and this is the last time.
This is a track off of the second full-length/EP, 'Sever Your Roots/Bury The Axe', by 'The Felix Culpa'. This edition has the 'Bury The Axe' EP bundled at the end. Please buy the album and support the band! Thanks :-)
Band Website: http://www.thefelixculpa.com/
Album Website (for lyrical analysis): http://www.severyourroots.com/
Artist: The Felix Culpa
Album: Sever Your Roots/Bury The Axe
Genre: Indie/Post-Hardcore/Progressive/Experimental
Year: 2010
Track Listing:
***Sever Your Roots***
1. New Home Life
2. Our Holy Ghosts
3. The Constant
4. Roots
5. Escape To The Mountain, Lest Thou Be Consumed
6. The First One To The Scene Of An Accident Always Gets Blood On Their Hands
7. Unwriting Our Songs
8. Mutiny
9. Rum And Cigarettes
10. Because This Is How We Speak
11. It's Raining At Indian Well
12. What You Call Thought Control, I Call Thought Control
13. An Instrument
14. Apologies
***Bury The Axe***
15. Mallets
16. Towers
17. Spaces
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