Well I watched my heroes fall I saw them crumble One and all And a chorus of no's From a gallery of those Who will never see so straight Or stand so tall All the guardian angels The blanket forts and fake hells All told me to sacrifice myself On a funeral pyre With my body on fire I sat straight up And cast off all the spells With the gates open wide And my lover in sight I called her name out loud In the middle of the night And the dawn it breaks And the morning's warm embrace Illuminates my Lover's face Well my sisters went very South and West And I went East We're all still fighting off Our demons in our sleep We cascade to the coasts Where we mostly can boast That we are doing better than well But Maria, when are you gonna settle down? I see your pictures And the question practically answers itself When the back car seats On lower tiers that we have known for years Have finally had their way with all of us I was terrified and dry and wide eyed All sentimental I rubbed the fog with my sleeve Off of the early morning window And the dawn it breaks And the morning's warm embrace Illuminates my Lover's face It illuminates my future face