Requiem - Strung Out

This fire’s growing stronger as it changes direction

(I can’t feel my arm)

As animals secretly wish our destruction

(They watch and wait)

The city we’ve abandoned burns away in the distance

(We are no one)

Like stray dogs left behind to wait

For dead masters, long gone

Behold the fields of fire as they cleanse our infection

(In cold grey love)

Now smoke and suffocation be the peace that you offer

(The lonely one)

California dreamers and skeletons wonder

(In lithium)

Like gasoline and crucifix

Roman candles and the fourth of July

On Black Friday we dance, we play

The tanks roll out and the lovers play

The sun is gone and the moon is high

The wolves will eat and the wolves will die

Saint Francis, you’ve gone away

You’ve stuck us here with your bills to pay

No words are left for a pretty song

About how we lived and we got it wrong