The Feast and The Famine

Album: Sonic Highways (2014)
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  • That night they were burning for truth
    Down on the corner of 14th and U
    They took your soul and they took you for fools
    Took all the windows from prisons and schools
    Now what's a poor man left to do?

    One heart now broken in two
    You start untying the hands of the youth
    New kids hear the sound of the drumming
    Mother Nature your summer is coming
    Yesterday and today
    Revolution on its way

    Amen
    It was the feast and the famine
    Amen
    It was the feast and the famine
    Feast and the famine

    Crossroads with nothing to lose
    Out of the basement and in to the news
    Come change, now shit getting heavy
    Salvation at the ready
    You look when I walked by
    Still screaming 'til I die
    You can't find peace if you can't find a home
    You can't survive as an island alone
    Black heart with a gaping wound
    Put back together by a troubled groove
    Check yourself
    Wreck your brains
    Where is that P.M.A.?

    Amen
    It was the feast and the famine
    Amen
    It was the feast and the famine
    Feast and the famine

    Hey, where is the monument?
    To the dreams we forget?
    We need a monument
    And change will come
    Yeah change will come
    Is there anybody there? (anybody there?)
    Anybody there? (anybody there?)
    There?

    Amen
    It was the feast and the famine
    Amen
    It was the feast and the famine
    Feast and the famine

    Amen
    Where is the monument?
    To the dreams we forget?
    Amen
    We need a monument
    And change will come
    Is there anybody there? (anybody there?)
    Anybody there? (anybody there?)
    There? Writer/s: Chris Shiflett, David Grohl, Georg Ruthenberg, Nate Mendel, Oliver Taylor Hawkins
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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