The Gates / Castle of the Ledge

Lyrics

They walk a silent path Staring at the dirt and ash That cracks beneath their feet They wipe their brow and grit their teeth Holding on to empty hope Bitterness and rock and roll Childish in nature They turn the wood to paper And open up the sky To find the satellite To fail to split the wind They are ready to begin I found the relic down out here I found the other way around out here It's on the bends you take to get to the den And you follow out your broken soul to the end The answer that I need is only a way And all the opportunity, I forget But hey, you never did believe in me then So I am on my own to fall out again The elders sit around the gates They say the road is open still You say whatever option that I take Is gonna bend, is gonna kill You see, I might've made a few mistakes I know the road is on the will And you dim the light while I'm away But one day we will take our wings And fly away And now our trinity is broken up in little thirds I fill my basket up with phoenix feather dirt On the knocking down, they took us to the room And we are not mistaken, we are who they want Well, I could say that this what I do deserve But I would never find the meaning or the words To describe to you what I really mean to say My confidence has led us both astray The elders sit around the gates They say the road is open still You say whatever option that I take Is gonna bend, is gonna kill You see, I might've made a few mistakes I know the road is on the will And you dim the light while I'm away But one day we will take our wings And fly away Before you let them take you away You tell them you're done, you tell them you're saved 'Cause I had never heard advice to believe And I was so wrong, and I was naive And I was selected to dig up the diamonds And burn up the islands and watch all the violence And now I'm on the falling out The gates are open now Before you get to open the wound You close it back up, you save it for two 'Cause I was only waiting all afternoon And I was alone, and you were my tool And I was selected to hide all the evidence Bury the residents, swim with the fishes And now I'm on the falling out The gates are open now Okay, you're laughing before your time is up But you're serious, you're hearing us 'Cause I could not stop the noise And I was caught, and I was poised And you were selected to handle the guns And protect what I'd done, and hide from the sun And now I'm on the falling out The gates are open now Out from the forest Nearby the gutter There lies a castle Yours to discover History made And cut from the blade Of regals long dead And fiction begets An evil queen Crossing the aisle Searching the files You will have known The myths of the old Ten centuries Would you believe? Tore it apart On personal griefs War followed Don't go alone You never know Spirit is there Carried by air Gets into you Sends body through Memory dead Fall off the edge Oh god! They fought! Deep down to the depth of it That throne where she used to sit Don't take any glance at it It's bloodshed, it's not romantic Long time since it happened, though You're just like as capable To fall to personal debts And create another ancient myth Lie to your sisters Lie to your brothers Lie to your mothers Lie to your fathers All are candidates You can see the chance Build your own castles Up on the Cliff-side ledge When you walk to the open arch Enter the room from the castle doors The stone and the concrete collapsing in Is the place where you check for a night a spend Enter the hallways, any one of them Watch where you step, it's an open dungeon Prisoners slept and walked Before the late-time battle rocked Step to the right, find the famous preserved library, then You can find your way to the underground diamond den And if you stop the check the time You'll notice that you're getting old You'd best watch yourself The castle will swallow you whole There's a castle in you Castle in you And it is rotten and still Broken to begin with Castle in you Castle in you And it is rotten and still Broken to be in it Yeah! There's a castle inside of you And everything I ever thought I knew Was locked inside the aura of truth And they would have an interest keeping it obscured It was a lie the prophets told the herd You and I together thought we knew the way Walking to the path they told us to obey Takes us to the castle up upon the ledge And slowly leads us closer to our deaths The elders sit around the gates They say the road is open still You say whatever option that I take Is gonna bend, is gonna kill You see, I might've made a few mistakes I know the road is on the will And you dim the light while I'm away But one day we will take our wings (and fly away) The castle stands there to remind They say the road, it leads you there But the elders on the other side Will say you'll never be prepared I see I spent my life just wasting time I wanna go, I do not care You know I've been a hamper on your life I'll take my wings, I'll hit the air And fly away I'll fly away I'll fly away Fly away