Deadringer

Deadringer

We both have walked as ghosts and we've done it for years

We saw everything, there's nothing to feel

Right through meat markets, gold pans, and the steel

They're using my hands, this is the work of man

Stand on the broken glass, spread out the fuel we need

And burn the machine that could have brought us back

You failed

You held a rose and clung with frozen hands

You failed [x2]

Can't fill the grave when the ghost needs to work [x2]

Push through the river, the cold is biting my heels

I see everything; I just can't feel

I'm my nation's wars, the body count's me

The beasts at the roots stalking my family tree

I watch my people in silence as they roll right past

The heavy footed steps destroy our sacred mass

I failed

I lost your bones

Can't dig them up with my hands

I failed [x2]

Can't fill the grave when the ghost needs to work [x2]

But I've come this for freedom

And I won't turn back [x2]

I've come so far

But I've come this for freedom

And there's nothing left

(But I too am America, and these riots within me)

Just can't keep going on like this

We failed

We let you starve and wouldn't stir these idle hands

We failed [x2]

But I just can't see you

I can't see you as anything but the ghost

(We failed)

It's just crooked world, man

(We failed)

It's been tearing us apart

Let's die right now

Die right now

And be content with what we've done [x2]