age is only age until it forgets that youth and life were a currency well spent
in keeping time by stars, the hours never could repent
and i found myself left asking where they went
like erosion on the limestone, we all played the parts we played
and i'm still generously standing in the rain
there's violence at the vatican, our kings are crowned by thieves
and i'll tell you Thomas, things aren't what they seem
maybe we have made mistakes that we don't even know
but your eyes grow wide with dollar signs, and you work with what you're sold
we awoke without our youth
to the beautiful uncompromising truth
(that we never knew what you wanted us to)
retracing steps, are these the prints we've left?
a meager crooked path that still circles rest
and it takes all i have just to sit and breathe
and it brings up the differences in you and me
it takes all i have just to sit and breathe
but i'd trade up my lungs for a second shot at twenty-three
(to be in love with love is not enough this time)
holding open hallway doors, i left too much to chance
now i'm sitting empty handed, scaring up a past
there's violins at the vatican, our kings were crowned by thieves
so i'll ask you Thomas, what do you believe?
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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