Light This City - Cradle for a King Lyrics
Everyone sees through youHow do you sleep at night?Translucent eyelids don't keep out the lightEyes that bulge apatheticallyFrom your engorged (yet empty) headResting on a pillow bursting with dreams that will never take flightSongs that one time soothed their weary minds and tired limbsBecome hauntingly, disturbingly, and loudly chanted hymnsFrozen-hearted martyr-makerWhat keeps you safe and warm at night?A blanket woven with the flowers of forced laborDyed and colored with the bloodThat you robbed from prisoners and slavesAdmit it, you get off more when they are fighting to escapeAnd what holds you up there, High above the rest of us?Mighty only if the sheets weren't pulled over your headThe posts of your bed carvedFrom the bleached bones of your deadThe faces of your apparitions dripping with the tears they she'dThis is where majesty lies awake feeling corruptly luxuriousIs this where dignity lies awake? In a cradle fit for a king?Frozen-hearted martyr-makerWhat keeps you safe and warm at night?A blanket woven with the flowers of forced laborDyed and colored with the bloodThat you robbed from prisoners and slavesAdmit it, you get off more when they are fighting to escapeYou are not my hero; you're only my sovereignI'm not encouraged to follow in your noble, shallow footsteps; Just expected to obeyAnd even though you're the one that represents all of humanityYou are still only humanThe backbone of immortality breaks every time:Our fatal flaws turn to fatal lies
