I stand before you naked inadequate
A vessel bound to rot
Like so many have before me
And yet more to come, beneath the turf my lot
But first I offer you my love
If you can make use of me still
♪
Pray earth will not consume me before, my friend
I know you've heard my plea
♪
I have been proud
I have been envious and vile, and I have feasted greedily
Yet I offer you my love
If you can make use of it still
♪
All flesh grows weak
Skin becomes bleak
All joints will creak
Bones turn to dust
Each passing hurts
Bound to the earth
A painful birth
Each passing hurts
Bound to the earth
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You and I are bound together
By a bond stretched through space and time
And even if we never meet
In some way I am yours and you are mine
I have been lost, I have been searching
Not knowing what I hoped to find
And on the way I've seen
Such sights to take my eyes and leave me blind
I saw
Wildfires raging, all seeming doomed
For a brief moment there I saw you
Then I knew nothing could break us
Knew nothing could really make us
Snapping our bones would only shake us
Yet force could never, ever truly make us
But I knew nothing could break us
Knew nothing could really make us
Snapping our bones would only shake us
Brute force could never break us
Wildfires raging, all seaming doomed
For a brief moment there I saw you
There I saw you (there I saw you)
Bent yet unbroken beneath an unforgiving sky
Defiant refusing to lie down and let the night take you
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Yeahh
♪
Yeahh
♪
These days, it's all about old men and what they
See when they look into the cheval glass
Each eager to plan his last mass, and have the hereafter
Talk about how he went out with real class
And have the hereafter talk about (how he went out with real class)
Man, you've got to know
If you keep staring at the world through reflective brass
What you try to see it will show
That your own head is in the way of what you try to grasp
(And)
And your head's a long way up your ass