For The Empire

My aren't we tenacious?
Or are we just quite envious infectious
Such as my
Illuminating pride
Breaking down this moment
The self proclaimed long
Everlasting cure
Constructed to
Combat my disease

So we wrote some new affairs
And spent some cash
To cover you up so well
Before I become your lie again
Again
We're breaking hard for summer
These stitches held by our indifference
Here we are
Marching away
For the last time darling

What am I to do now I said
Just what am I to do now I said
On the receiving end of static
Meant to shut you down
Been campaigning your politics
I read them like holy scriptures
To the privileged and the proud
I've accepted loss, accepted guilt
Just for you to shut me out
And play out like we're well rehearsed
Parade around me like some
Drunken sailors without their captain
Been too long since I could drink
Empires shake and fall from lack of understanding
I'll be the martyr for your cause
A fashion that is fire
What I do is
Not some attempt to become holy
I built this from my body
This is for you
This is for you
For you
This is for you
I'll sing for you
This is for
You
And she said
"You better make that money!"

Bled some sounds off record
I've created something perfect
That the world will sing it
And sing it loud
Praise to the empire tonight
Until we bring it down
Praise to the empire tonight
Until we bring it down
Praise to the empire tonight
Until we bring it down
Praise to the empire tonight
Until we bring it down

Until we bring it
Down