All the Old Heroes

歌詞

Come yonder old stranger the tooth and the dagger You stagger and then you are saved Grow fonder the manger in truth and in danger Of forgetting mistakes that you've made Eyes like mine blinking and endlessly drinking Letting the warlords inside Fall in like mice into fires of ice In death we find places to hide All the old heroes are like children to me now As I come to burn your shame away Without knowing exactly how All the old heroes young babies without mothers Left to die on apocalyptic(/apocalypse) streets And where are these words from who spoke them before Coming down like flashes of heat I'm never frightened(/afraid) for death I still welcome And death I have seen you before I gave you my keys, my windows, my creeds But soon I will give you much more I tried once to hide but misery's pride Told me you can't hide no more So the next time you came without any shame I made sure to open my door Come back in my fair-weather friend The light that you cannot control Is yours to condemn to love and take in Give mercy to each fallen soul All the old heroes are like children to me now As I come to burn your shame away Without knowing exactly how Love is a fix a suicide wrist Blood with an unending flow To purify lands soak in the sands Of places that we'll never go Jesus come calling we'll be here and falling Praying for your hand to show Catch us in mercy drink us when thirsty Each of us falling like snow All the old heroes are like children to me now As I come to burn your shame away Without knowing exactly how Each one a cathedral the last junkie needle Stained glass from blood that is old And in that cathedral with (the) angels of nighttime Pained/Paned in the window so cold They see through your victim your painful musicians Playing the saddest of songs Nobody singing just a ghost without dreaming A voice that could right all the wrongs All the old heroes are like children to me now As I come to burn your shame away Without knowing exactly how Goodbye sweet diamond the sky in the north wind Is falling on lepers and snakes Hello young mercy both blessed and thirsty For solutions to so many mistakes Without your lover your tired wonder The south rain threatens to pour On (skulls?) like crashing in sunlight basking Ignoring the strongest of calls You cannot save them without their consent Your voice of mercy to them I have sent You spoke through me you a good man Grew up to listen and give me your hand Your voice of mercy so strong and so true It comes out in cascades without residue Of darkness or lies in(/or) doubt or untrue/untruth It's pure like the wind the rain and the youth All the old heroes are like children to you now As you come to burn their shame away Without knowing exactly how All the old heroes are like children to you now As you come to burn their shame away Without knowing exactly how