Beholder

Great tumbling walls, a solemn vow
Keep your eyes to the ocean
Four silhouettes in an empty house
Set the plan into motion

An old man's waiting beside you feeding your fear
'Til the last of it's gone
The landlord, he couldn't last 'til the end of a year
We've been waiting so long

I'm looking at the silent strangers, paid them all to work
I saw your face in the glass and I let it all burn
There's a couple other families around all fading to dirt
There is nothing better for her now than some peace from the world

Eight fingers marking the walls of glass
There were hours to falter
Hearts clinging on to an empty past
That says nothing at all

I kept my face on the ground, you weren't making it easy
There'll be justice, I swore
But you let the cane off my back just so I saw you leaving
Tell me what it was for

I'm looking at the silent strangers, paid them all to work
I saw your face in the glass and I let it all burn
There's a couple other families around all fading to dirt
There is nothing better for her now than some peace from the world

See I waited day upon night just to see how it ended
I could never have known
That I never needed the love or the praise or attention
You were after my soul

And I kept my eyes to the ground just like you said I needed
But the concrete's so cold
When I lost a sister and a mum in the space of a week
I have got to let go

And now the ceiling's cracked I can freely stand
I saw my face in the glass and I threw it away
There is nothing left for me to fear when I'm barely here
I guess there's nothing else that it's for, another worker dead
I guess there's nothing else that it's for, another father figure dead