Arrival
Press your tongue against the plate of your skull
Pull your teeth around the skin of your lips
Announce and perform an adoption, a surrender
Renounce and deform, denounce and reform
Your mother's tongue
And when you arrive the demands we make
Are little surgeries or open cast mines
With designs to act
Like a puncture in your neck
A wound a valve
An injury that marks the severance
Between here and there so that the cut
Of your tongue will carry no weight
And not enough air
To bear, to relate the distinctions the details
The stories of your negotiations
With the sea the mountains the towns
With the lines we draw
The thresholds that promise
Peril for you and luxury for us
And when we hear the mutilations
Of our sovereign cant
We'll call you out to bear the sin
Of the fury that knocks
Of the wrath that pounds
On our thinning skin
Pull your teeth around the skin of your lips
Announce and perform an adoption, a surrender
Renounce and deform, denounce and reform
Your mother's tongue
And when you arrive the demands we make
Are little surgeries or open cast mines
With designs to act
Like a puncture in your neck
A wound a valve
An injury that marks the severance
Between here and there so that the cut
Of your tongue will carry no weight
And not enough air
To bear, to relate the distinctions the details
The stories of your negotiations
With the sea the mountains the towns
With the lines we draw
The thresholds that promise
Peril for you and luxury for us
And when we hear the mutilations
Of our sovereign cant
We'll call you out to bear the sin
Of the fury that knocks
Of the wrath that pounds
On our thinning skin
Credits
Writer(s): Melvyn Wesson, Ed Buller, Mark Ellis, David Bessell
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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