The Rifle's Spiral

Album: Port Of Morrow (2012)
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  • Dead lungs command it
    You pour your life down the rifle's spiral
    And show us you've earned it
    The cleric's fog will recede right before your eyes

    So long to this wretched form
    Them gray eyes on the subway
    Long before you were born
    You were always to be a dagger floating
    Straight to their heart

    Listen, now, we won't tell anyone
    But you gonna tell the world
    This whole life ain't then any fun
    Now your viscera unfurls

    As you rise, rise from your burning fiat
    And go, go get my suitcase, would ya?
    You've thoroughly blown their minds
    And now I must have passage home
    Your life's two veins from your heart

    You're not invisible now
    You just don't exist
    Your mother must be so proud
    You sublimate yourself, granting us a wish

    Primitive mural on the wall
    To fortify your grim resolve
    Amid the glitz of a shopping mall
    Another grain of indigent salt for the sea

    Goodnight to these wretched forms
    All them grey eyes on the subway
    So long before you were born
    You were always to be a dagger floating
    Straight to their heart Writer/s: James Mercer
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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