Firstwake

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Garrett Russell] You'd be choking on your flame, my Son without a name Made king [1] of all the wastes And forever will swallow us alive, we'll be abstracted from time We can let the tides wash over [Pre-Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton] This is the epilogue to the introduction (Lost in the sound) [2] Hold tight to all your systematic theories That help you to sleep at night But remember that there could be no sufficient certitudes in hell [Chorus: Garrett Russell] Father, forgive them For they know not what they do [3] Mother, receive me [4] 'Cause I'm coming home to you, does this cup run dry? [5] [Verse 2: Thomas Freckleton & Garrett Russell] Look at what we've done again, we wage war in the name of love Using gold to fill the holes in your hands Caught in the paradox Juxtaposed between bifurcated black and white And my propensity to fail you Caught in the cyclical narrative of violence That invokes your name to justify genocide They'll take everything [Bridge: Joel Quartuccio] We traded water for salt Something whole for something equally as broken as us Now dying of thirst, we'll write this out in blood And shut you in a stone-cold time where the air rots out, leaving us alone We chose to be alone I was given this cup to quench parched tongues But I became drunk and lust lynched my lungs [Chorus: Garrett Russell] Father, forgive them For they know not what they do [3] Mother, receive me [4] 'Cause I'm coming home to you, does this cup run dry? [5] [Outro: Garrett Russell] For they know not what they do [3]