Torches - The Oh Hellos

I got a venom like a snake running out of my mouth

(running out of my mouth, running out of my mouth)

It’s got you burning at the stake

Innocent or not, you’re not a bet I care to take

And Father Ignorance will make brothers of us all

(brothers of us all, brothers of us all)

As he sets our torch aflame

Chasing down the flimsy specters that we co-create

Over and over, again

We keep that old wheel turning

We spin it around

I got a terror I can’t shake pushing down on my lungs

(pushing down on my lungs, pushing down on my lungs)

It’s got me lying there awake with a hand on a gun while turning shadows into

shapes

Mother Fortuna, O, she makes sisters of us all

(sisters of us all, sisters of us all)

When the faces in her wake

Look more like our own than the effigies we immolate

Over and over, again

We keep that old wheel turning

Over and over, again

We lay the next spoke down

Over and over, again (oceans will roll in)

Over and over, again

We spin it around