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Penance for the Poet

by Throne to Tides

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1.
They're departing from the docks again.
 Where are we is this now or then? The closer we grow grows so close to the end. Close to the end.
 Wax wick through a window
 Beams bright through the waves.
 Uncertain futures but I've been here for days A sign of hope for the distant A beacon that beckons to the afraid.
 Bless yourself with the salt of the ocean
 Holy water is not the same So keep me safe.
Show me how to come back home.
 You are my lighted sea and I'm here to atone. It'll always be the same again Just keep swimming cause our time is thin
 I can't forgive if I already forget 
 I'm wiping blood from my nose again

 So burn through the waves
 Through the rain
through the storm
 I don't recognize these tides But I've been here once before
 Sound the bells and lets begin
 We have another date with sin
 Sound the bells and lets begin
 We have another date with sin.
2.
They escaped from the sky and then created a savior 
 Now his shephard arrives but hes not trying to save them So high in the heavens they can't tell
 That their floating city has turned into hell Oh father where's your saving grace?
 You tore down blessed bridges for this cursed placed.

 Murder of crows from my branded hands
 Takes hold of your city and your precious lamb
 So preach from your pulpit that ignorant bliss
 cause i'm armed to the teeth with the devils kiss

 Father your flock has gone astray 
 Followed you blindly to this place
 See anchors sinking from the sky They watched the mainland wave goodbye

 He says dont fear
cause there's no equals in this atmosphere Red white and blue banners They burn where they hang 
 You say you're the prophet 
 But you started this plague.
3.
Wipe away the debt they told me

 Wings on a statue 
 Are you my angel?
 The lamb they pray to
 This is a scandal 

 And now you're dressed in innocence
 Songbird never leaves the nest

 So they locked you in this place And tried to find a way
 To siphon all your strength So we'll break you out today
 You're the bird who leaves its cage
 See you fly for forgivness sake
 Am I real? I'm real enough Not from your heaven 
 But we'll build the trust 
 They call songbird
 It's time to run
 TIme on your island is almost done Glass broken window
 I've got the key I'll be your hero If you can save me And now you're dressed in clairvoyance
 Songbird in rapture rest

 We can't be caged
 I know why you sing
 We can't be caged
 You know everything
4.
So keep the heart 
 Its still beating well
 Insides like machines with no emotions to spill
 No one to hold with hydraulic hands 
 There's nothing left of this tragic man

 Man and machine they've become forever confined Using bolts screws and rivets to seal inside the pain A mechanical monster with his heart left inside. Now there's only oil where the blood used to stain.

 Are you not bound by biology 
 Cover you ears to death's sweet sound
 They'll keep him alive for an industry
 Bury me at least six feet deep so I can rest in the ground So keep your metal and your engines and your pistons cause I'll spend forever pushing petals not a slave to some Titan of industry a mastermind of labor who Uses the handyman like just another lifeless tool We're not slaves.
5.
(Instrumental)
6.
There's no turning back on the things that I've done I just live with the choices even though they were wrong

 Time bleeds the hours
 Seconds stitched into days My transgressions weigh oh so heavily
 As the seams tear with the weight I don't see that I'm worth saving Take this chance that you gave me
 And make my way back to you on my own
 I need someone to settle my soul

 These are your words that you've already said
 A note that you wrote Like a secret you kept This is repentance 
 A song that we say
 Sing along for the bird of prey So tear into tomorrow where i still have a chance
 Its the only place left I haven't said sorry yet
7.
Remind me to make you forget
 We've watched the past forget us And now we can see what's next 
 This baptism brings destruction
not redemption. It's disgrace.
 If I come up from the water
 Then the hand will show its face
 My ashes your lashes His dust is my dust Your eyes cannot hide the other worlds around us My daughter my daughter, my my how you have grown I'd watched it all so closely though I had never known
 And now I see the different roads that we take
 They always lead to here there's no choices to make
 Every star at night Another door inside Swim through the different oceans We'll pilot the seven seas I'll still end up right next to you And you right next to me And now we're standing on the sand The river running through your hand
 And the currents getting older 
 This is how it has to end 
 All the time I had to break
 Promises I didn't know I would make So put my head under the water
 Give you the last breath I can take.

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released January 4, 2014

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