Unturning

I will dig two graves for us

Just want to see this enemy gone

There is no time.

I just want to see this enemy gone.

The war that leaves us all behind

I can see it in your eyes

The seed inside us multiplies

Caught you again, I know your face,

You played the snake, and promise me

King in your world made out of glass,

We’ll wait to see just how long the liar lasts.

Call me the cancer wrapped in skin

The mask you bear is wearing thin

I can see you in the light

Questioning mine

But these unturning eyes

Are leaving us all blind

The anchor between us drags us down,

And in those depths, we will both surely drown.

Reach for my hand, I offer peace, please brother,

Take it, we will find release

“Keep it!” he said,

“I wish the ground beneath your feet would give way,

There’ll be no peace!

I am the hand that bears the knife’s weight!”

I will dig two graves for us

Just want to see this enemy gone

There is no time.

I just want to see this enemy gone

So bring me the end, bring me that fire,

Breathe in smoke and spit out ash

The snake won’t admit it,

But its certain now that this too,

As all things, shall pass

I can see you in the light

Brother of mine.

With these unturning eyes,

We left the whole world blind

It begins now.

You hear that voice from the crowd

Finally, fear in your heart, that old stone

This is how it starts

We’ve waited for it, this end

We’ve been begging for it

And it won’t be long

Until we’re raising our voices in song

We are the voice of the crowd

We are fire aloud.

We are the ones who stood first,

The hill and the stone

The deep and the thirst

We are the voice of the crowd

We are fire aloud

We are the silence at the end of sound

Listen closer, perhaps you can hear us now

We believe that the man who brings his heart is home,

If the fight isn’t over, then let this be known:

We’ll go down by the sound of the songs the we’ve sung,

And I welcome the drowning

Fill these empty lungs.

And I know that there’s nothing that waits for me there

But the peace in the silence

I’ve earned it, I swear

In the face of unturning eyes,

I have no fear

There is no God, and I am standing right here

Open arms to my brother,

I say: “welcome home”

Find the peace in each other,

We’ve waited so long

Neither question nor answer will come from above

Bury hate with the coward,

The answer is love