When William was a boy his father pulled a pretty penny from his ear Told his son that coppers nice, but you gotta fight to make some silver appear And while his mother made more brothers, and his brothers made new mothers  William took a job with Uncle Sam for the summer Said he found a silver bullet to put an end to their family strife And so he lit fires, and fires, and fires straight down through Raleigh Till the war went(C repeat changes) away They still burn today Whose blood have we built on to finance our fantasies? Whose dreams have been pillaged to feed our favorite sons? And why can’t our elders feel the breath of the dead pushing daisies Through our floorboards Ever slowly, ever slowly They say that William freed a thousand suffered souls when he marched to the sea But he chose to pack his bags when Uncle Sam cut down his money tree And while his men fled to west, craving new conquest, searching for a new shot at glory  Those who broke their chains were left to fight for their shot at a story And so they toiled, and toiled, and toiled, and toiled away While w e looked the other way And they toil to this day Their blood has been built on to finance our fantasies Their dreams have been pillaged to feed our favorite sons No wonder our elders ignore the breath of the dead pushing daisies Through our floorboards Ever slowly, ever slowly We remember the men who were willing to win at all costs We carve them in stone to remember their face once they’re lost But now that they topple down, cracking on the ground, fallen at the hands of the forgotten We can all feel the breath of these men Pushing daisies  Like the rest of us Ever slowly Ever slowly

Lost in a highway daze Speeding to the soundtrack of our middle-aged malaise High on loose packed cigarettes and petroleum fumes The smell of sour whiskey makes a deadly perfume And I might just let you take a whiff of it anyway Yeah, I think that poison just might be here to stay It was a midnight masquerade We were unmasked by the moonlight and I didn't even hesitate Chose the purest of souls, drenched in wedding white Selfishly stole it for my devilish delights And when the sun came up these sins were greeted with gratitude You left me all this time, and I was starving for gratitude So these are no circumstances to demand second chances You were laughing while our love bled out You made a hole in my rib cage Put my heart on the front page Just to watch the vultures tear it out Oh and you let those vultures tear it out And you never had a second doubt They say that love will set you free But then why does that devil keep dangling those keys in front of me Steel walls echo with those 22 blanks Bouncing through my cell just like that cold thanks You shoot to kill all my empty apologies Oh fuck this sea of empty apologies And now I'm just like you A cup of revenge capped with spite makes dangerous brew So I'll let you run your mouth again and try to gaslight Those crocodile tears will die by my snakebite Your phantom of an ego could never handle the truth Oh you created a monster, but at least I could tell you the truth That these are no circumstances to demand second chances You were laughing while our love bled out You made a hole in my rib cage Put my heart on the front page Just to watch the vultures tear it out Oh and you let those vultures tear it out And you never had a second doubt We're dying and I know you see Oh I was blind but you made me see I'm done being your rock so your could grind that axe I'm done being a lab rat for your traps Now I'm the one testing a new way of getting through And for once the sad soul who will be the control is you Oh these are no circumstances to demand second chances Now who's laughing while they make their way out You made a hole in my rib cage My heart strengthened with old age And I wouldn't let you tear it out Oh I wouldn't let you tear it out Yeah I'm laughing as you figure it out Oh I'll never have a second doubt They say that love will set you free So good luck trying to make your escape without me

Oh I know now we're on our way To where our father had once settled his score And though that garden's long been locked away We heard that angels had once opened that door In the heat of summer Magnolias fell upon lost lovers Steeped in sin and shameful slumbers The willows wept while they watched us burn In the heat of summer Dogwoods cackled as they claimed another Star-crossed lover with a shameful hunger They strung us up just to watch us burn Oh I know now we're on our way To where our fathers once had settled their score And though the goalposts they may have changed Those fields sleep silent as they did before In the heat of summer Worlds apart from their lonely mothers Boys played war to show each other Whose blood could keep the rivers running full In the heat of summer Worlds apart from those ancient wonders Mad men built cheap Parthenons To prey on those who kept their bellies full And now those preachers are surprised that we would mind when their feckless faith had faltered They're frightened that their flock is growing weary of their windowless rooms The final play of their crusade is force our memories to fade, and keep us blinded to our crime, blinded to our crime, blinded All of this time, all of this time To the beauty that we left behind Oh I know now we're on our way To where our devils dance and god once would But whose fault should that be anyway When only demons ever understood (When no one listened but our demons would) Oh a clap of thunder Were those gunshots or almighty thunder Was Eden burned for g reed and plunder Will we ever grow it back again With a clap of thunder We asked the rain to wash away our blunders But when it showed us our true colors We let our brothers drown again Was it truly a surprise when god's children, fed with lies, tried to swim into the mouth of Gibraltar, He should have always known that we'd grow weary of our windowless rooms Did he take pleasure in our plight, send down a bolt of spite to keep us blinded to our crime, blinded to our crime, blinded All of this time, all of this time To the beauty that we left behind Oh I know now we're on our way But our apples have been rotting to the core And if we let our last last few die today Will our children ever make it through that door?

We got a sickness made of silence that's been spreading all around us And there's no comfort in our crying, because our crying is no cure There's no beauty in the bullets that make the lining of our streets There's no prayers left for the fallen who were sacrificed for "peace" So now we're praying for revival because we've got to earn our keep The souls of those whose taught us are uneasy in their sleep We're praying for revival of the spirit that's grown weak We're praying for revival and there's no patience... left for peace We got a fire that's been burning long before we started nursing The smoke had choked our mothers while we struggled in the womb And our fathers who cried out had young with ashes left to guide them Left with blood-worn boots their tiny feet were never meant to fill So now we're praying for revival with only nickles to our name For those who came before us stripped their young of any claim We're praying for revival because they profit off the broken We're praying for revival of our living... that's been stolen We've got a country where the ghosts are living lively all among us The lip service of our leaders feeds their families every day And these ghosts will haunt us since they know our hell is overflowing Cuz they're scared that those same fires that shaped the best of us today So now we're praying for revival because our enemy is weak The fear that fed their anger will soon strangle their mystique We're praying for revival and nowt time is on our side We're praying for revival and we will not... be denied So now we're praying for revival because our enemy is weak The blood that's shared among us beats too strong to keep us meek We're praying for revival cuz now time is on our side We're praying for revival and we will not... be denied So now we're praying for revival because our enemy is weak The fear that fed their anger will soon strangle their mystique We're praying for revival cuz now time is on our side We're praying for revival and we will not be denied Yeah we're praying for revival because our enemy is weak The blood that's shared among us beats too strong to us meek Yeah we're praying for revival cuz now time is on our side We're praying for revival and we will not be denied

See you tomorrow my dear There's not much left for me here I might just roll on through With that picture of you Might just disappear Far away from here Far away from here Oh I'm trying I'm trying not to disappear Is there something left for me here? Don't wanna disappear