Тексты песен «Republic Of Wolves»

When I was six months old There was a price upon my soul They placed me in a basket And sent me down the rapids So all I ever knew was a wicker tomb Please lock the door behind me Just lock the door after I go I'm...

Give weight and give woe The working man's slow For dinner we ate by the fire Some life is just so hard to let go I followed you with every movement So what if the walls in the canyon were to crumble What if the ice...

I don't want anything to do with anything divine No penitence, no patience, no design No creation, no decline I don't want any good to come from all my disbelief No silver-lined exceptions, no reprieve No redemption,...

I have been waiting on a response for days There has been a complication It seems your heart needed a break From pumping the blood through your veins And keeping the oxygen ok I still see your face Any day when I see...

They kept their heads in books to drown it out The clinking glasses of an inlet's open mouth The straits were shaking us in circles now I faked a faster death but knew that time was headed south Through all my thinning...

I've been clearing the air Of every connection we had lost What a criminal thought That you gave so much room to multiply And it left you to soak in conversations With a door you could not close And I was intertwined...

I am not the Devil under the water Pulling you down by your own wooden nails Splitting and shriveling seeping out of me God I am afraid of the songs you have been singing me God I cannot hear your voice quite so clearly...

So we played our games In the dug-out graves Shouting curses at the dirt 'til the Messiah showed his face With his soap-stone eyes And his seaweed beard And he scolded us so sharply With his winding river tongue It was...

You thought you could free the slaves By filling out the proper paperwork 'Till you turned out all your pockets And realized they never were You pulled your kids out of the public school And resigned to your...

Our home is a jagged mouth Streaming out pleas to the dead We are misshapen teeth Uprooting ourselves But we could have spent our time Burying strangers instead We would've settled in And found out our names But calm...

I clawed through the print and found you Living between parentheses Venturing out in springtime To make sure the phone was off the hook You said "I guess it's all prefigured We're living out some old...

Dead weight under my feet Peeling up my honesty Somehow I forgot what it was worth But I'll follow his notes To the edges of the earth Creatures of the deep Keeper of my memories I've come to take them back from which...

I had a lot to say Before they sewed my mouth shut Out on a rosy field Between a cross and crescent I had a love so pure I had to leave her behind I never told her why Did I ever tell myself why? I kept a steady hand...

There's no path you couldn't choose Honey don't be fooled Yeah that's something you knew in your stomach But it still never rang true There's some eyes that never close There's some doors mine won't Like the caverns of...

Forget the pain you once held dear It cannot help you here Did it ever help you anywhere? You're kneeling on a memory Some Pyrrhic victory But could you ever be that young again? My dice are cast, I can't turn it...