Attack in Black

Cold, cold 1950 a year from now I'll be away a year from now you'll hear from me my chin on the water in the darkest time I'll cut through country, country bound with foot in mouth before the town that looks of shadow and of cloud and looking back be da...

Did you know you kept me warm, When I first walked in? Did you know you kept me warm? Did you even see my face, Before you turned around Did you even hear me say Oh Birmingham, I don't understand Did you like the way write, When you found my words?...

I set the fire ablaze lit it from far away found it out yesterday Called it a big mistake a wake up call for me figured it would be That the story of this man never was a plan incompatible worlds we can't control But that's the way it's always been c...

In my wonder I can weigh the loss that we all had to suffer felt in headaches from the knowing that our heroes lives uncovered to be seen as they'd always been nothing but a boring shade of blue from the knowing that I'l never sing in tune like the rest...

When the time comes for marriages to end when all the black gowns are called and sent to darken doors and pay them penance for wishing death before their contracts ended when all the black gowns are hiring art does the suffering they don't see the...

The darling night called out my name one million times, "there is nothing to fear, my young, no rest in the divine." when our urges rest in the hands of you believers, I really hope that you're believing and this, the greatest gift to give I caught a...

Shake and stir yourself into a bad excuse a half-hearted fuck you imagine all the nowhere places we'd have been and all the cynicism aside, and let me try to turn these awful words into a cure, not a curse and I'm still drawn by the kid in the corner and...

Today I noticed hills of gold I had not seen before, Today I saw a line against the sky I have not seen before. Holdin' on in powerlines I asked, for birds to keep my thought in place And above my feed they resonate, sound muffled but immediate. And oh how...

Hey if u hear me out there I get down on my knees every night and say.(walk with meeee) . Ahaha Im going to war im going to war (Young Buck) You never know when deaths coming All ya hear is gun shots When kids get the runnin Old ladys get off the block...

We live our lives so proud of nothing Nothing like the stillness in the air We're losing everything we've worked for And soon there will be nothing left to share Do we still care? (chorus) Cut them out before they setle down So we have the will to mak...

please pay us mind with some smoke across the sky and a flower left to honour life maybe happiness is wealthy if you spell it right a bird kissed to the treetops at night trying hard to put to page all the words that are defined by everything we never...

The black-streak, bag-eyed husbands move waiting to be widowed by the passing of familiar skies and all we've come to know our shadows have my sympathy for they must never wish to be joined beneath, unwilling our endless, restless feet so prai...

you should say should say somethings about me that I don't like to believe cause I don't like the sound of what I might be when that old ghost is around I wish I could turn back to those nights and just stay home I wish I could learn that my thoughts are...

Everything is so clear today. I'm finding the right words to say How I let the whole things fall And how it won't hurt me at all. No. I'm a rock that can't be stopped. And it's never enough. No, it's never enough when you live without love. Tell me is...

Sooner or later i'm going to forget leaving without a trace when everything is how it should be i'm going to hide my face she thinks she knows me like no other but there are some things i have said that come from a place that traces its tracks and...

if priests are princes' hollowed shadowed souls if devils are but angels cast to know i live forever with a sharp regret it might be a surprise to know i never wished for death a hint of misery made its way along to those who've never harmed or never wro...

I'll not often think of often times in sadness I'll not let a lovely life become a lonely mess I'll not rest a moment 'neath some broken vale for if undisturbed, its sorrow would prevail distances from star to star like lonesome, endless time inch...

Alone before The lady of the lourdes. I hadn't any words For anyone nor would I evermore. Alone below The shadows of the light posts. I hadn't any room for anyone Nor would I ever more. Ever more will I before Lady lourdes sweet numb. Ever more wi...

I heard that you began to grow flowers, I wanna know their names and of their colors, And for you to tell me how they feel, there beside each other, if you kept them warm, with dirty water, have you one leather jacket somewhere? Grey and white with dia...

Little steps of darkness, and of light Defend with me the liberties of day and mysteries of night Maybe nothing lifeless, only now Confess again the lovely of your lips and sadness of your brow, oh Yellow morning, lonely nothing sound Against my feet, w...

if it's mine to give its gone lost or left somewhere along the way and forgive my honesty but you can have all i'll never be one day machines will quit and the ones like me who don't see fit to play a part will move along with no pity for the deadest o...

Make it so the handsome Way of what never was Turns to overcast what has become Do away with that which makes A moment so decreet We hesitate ashamed to Really laugh or really weep. Maybe man is worth the weight Of what his eyes have seen Maybe there...

It's so hard to find out Cause I'm so far behind them I wish I was a lion Now that I'm dying Why's it such a mystery Is this how it's supposed to be No one comes too close to me Now that I'm dying Now that I'm dying I wish my legs would work again...

They will turn your fucking life to gold? We're bought and sold, we're getting old Without a shot they take it away This is thought control its time we pay We'll slave and sleep amongst the meek We live our lives they sell another story And I'd like t...

Where'd you learn to tie that rope man And is it done the best that you can Can you make a tire with your strong hands tied for the gallows hanging Does it ever keep you up at night Do you wonder what you're doing's not right And do you ever think you m...

Seeds were parting at your touch Wild fruit were falling from the buds We parted at the foot of the park and you were gone Gone You climbed towers with a broken hand We taped towels to the window trim We parted at the foot of the park and you were gone...

When I wake Then I see Someone's open eyes when I wake I see Someone's silent eyes would you stay for a while? keep good company? did you know what it means to be underneath? When the light comes I'll be gone when the morning is upon you when the...

Mother are you thinkin' of me Well I lost my way, completely How could I forget the way Shown to reside Sister take my word There's too many that I've hurt Can you find it in your heart To see me well Father can you gaze Past the person that I've ma...

Sparrow calling me Up high from the tallest tree Sparrow calling Wings to spread me though the seas Take my side away Setting suns won't take away Rays so bright i'm blind. Wasting all my time. Sparrow calling me up high from the tallest tree Sparr...

Are we losing sight of a reason to fight? Are our sisters still walking the streets late at night? With that fear in their eyes that can't be disquised Is it the voice of reason or sexual treason Our ways have been divided now pleas show me the meaning Fo...

Today I found the curve of the earth The horizon bounded my feet Gravity's weight had me defeated And the core of the earth, I could feel it's heat I could feel it's heat Today I saw the change in the sky And the snow was covered in leaves The forecast...

Maybe, mabe in a lifetime the ones that we will resurrect my monument immortal but tarnished I suspect that holdes my generations failures put to song the jail cell holding all our years undone the passing of the time we killed when we were young the arch...

If you hated music Would you be a mother with a family? If your songs weren't written Would I still get shivers from your silence Until tears are welled up in my eyelids? If your duty wasn't earthly Would you understand its beauty? Please do these thin...

You'll never learn your lesson You'll be left behind When all is in the open I'm the one who will be unkind So long I've been watching Nothing seems to change your mind Soon they'll be no one with you Then you will feel my size. You're such an only c...

There's a shadow clinging lyrically by and by to the devil on the roadside there's an angel envious to mystery like young leaves there's a void begging desperate as a lie for us to make it feel alive and waiting on the world to lend a spirit tru...