Animal Bones

Why do you torture me so?

You sit across the table with both eyes closed

You speak in myth and fable, and stand unopposed

The animal bones reveal themselves from deep within your mane

They reach for ethereal light

The ancient spears rise from her shoulders and riddle your frame

marking the first time it was done right

And that’s not all that haunts me, the death by fire of a child

who waits so patiently, and we are the ones

who set the standard by which we are to be measured

Measured, measured

Some things can never walk again cause sometimes a step is all too vile

The path of five innocent men who are only capable of walking one last mile

If I could live another day over again, I’d choose not to

The successes and failures of days passed are constant

The horizon promises days ahead

If you won’t quit, then I won’t

And this I swear to you tonight

upon these former embers

you fanned until they were fire

We are nothing without the thousands of voices that make the choir

Nothing without the thousands of voices that make the choir

We are, we are, we are still life

(We are, we are, we are still life)

We are, we are, we are still life

Begging and pleading, not dying, but bleeding out (Still life, still life)

Begging and pleading, not dying, but bleeding out (Still life, still life)

Oh, the chemical reaction, the chemical

Oh, the chemical reaction

When the walls fell, with arms wide