First Father

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Garrett Russell] Do you remember when I said You'd never feel the sting of death? [01] But now I'm waiting where you left Beside that snow-kissed clearing [02] I pressed a seed through that frozen fleece The earth embraced you in the ground No invention of my mind Will ever compose a melody so profound I'm a priest afraid to pray [03] Terrified at what the silence couldn't say Tongue tethered to the skeptic beating in my chest [Pre-Chorus: Garrett Russell] We're no longer quite ourselves Nor reflections of someone else Lover, do you feel that tension As we drift between silence and eternity? [Chorus: Garrett Russell] Death is the road, road to awe [04] I stood atop the world Its asymmetry laid bare in front of me: Thanatophobic societies taking life to mourn their tragedies [Verse 2: Garrett Russell] I feared this world would never change But you steady your resolve anyway Let's set the pen against the sword [05] How orphans long for peace before they learn to love the war Perhaps it's our language [06] Perhaps we are incomplete Words like shadows to what we see Faint flickerings across the cavern in our minds [07] [Bridge: Thomas Freckleton] Candles in the dark [08] Defiant to the night [Bridge: Garrett Russell] "You pulled me through time" [09] Through the edgeless night [10] I learned to love as you learned to die I'll begin to feel again and finish the chapter you couldn't write [Outro: Thomas Freckleton & Garrett Russell] Candles in the dark Defiant to the night, defiant to the shadow You pull me through time, through the edgeless night I learned to love as you learned to die [11]