mybrightestflame (feat. Liz Wagner Biro)

I'm not the shock and awe campaign
To find which hearts and minds remain
That can be sold a fast food chain
For the price of bread and novocaine
Another peasant family cursed
With their well-being a reverse
Chain of events that lead to this
Circumstances that I can't predict

I'd walk all night through smoke and rain
Before I'd let some sad refrain
Show it's facade to me again
And turn into my brightest flame
Just when you think the thing is slain
It rears its ugly head again
Didn't know the source of all that pain
Couldn't turn into my brightest flame...

Tell me who died and made you pay
For the way you treat those that you disdain
Who took your father's name in vain
As you made haste a sad display
Of what was once thought so perverse
No final prayers, no need of nurse
Did not think it would come to this
The truth we know it contradicts
Oh no, it's the weight of the world upon my sleeve
Oh no, I didn't think they would catch the melody
For sure, Backtracking my steps for all to see
Oh no, Nothing according to any foreseeable need

Oh but like a coin at the bottom of a wishing well
Or all the good intentions that can pave the road to hell
Oh but like a heart made out of asterisks
Or the deviations that can play your mind a trick

Oh no, but like a coin at the bottom of a wishing well
Or all the good intentions that pave the road to hell...