Light This City - Exile Lyrics
When you gaze into your polished metal platesYou picture the face of a man who longs to see his soulBut claws are claws, whether sharpened or painted or bluntedFrom hours of bounding, one-track-minded, through the snowI have arrived, an exile too inferior for your highness to fightArmored, not humored, and prepared to seize your lifeThe prisoner I came to rescue sits down to watch the fightWith tears in her eyes,Who knew a tongue could do so much harmLying in one's mouth?Dancing to music that wasn't really thereMuttering about moments we never even sharedYour twisted jaw movesBut you've lost all soundHow soon till your breath runs out?When the others gaze into your polished eyesAs glassy as the doll's you hold to represent your soulThey witness the face of an animal acting like a manIn their confusion, you dressed them in sashes and perfume,But the stench seeps throughI long to scream, "My country,This is not how we were supposed to live!"And with each mortifying blow, I'm fading rapidly"Get up!" I hear that faithful onlooker pleadShe won't insult me by looking awayWhen I start to bleedWho knew a tongue could do so much harmLying in one's mouth?Dancing to music that wasn't really thereMuttering about moments we never even sharedYour twisted jaw movesBut you've lost all soundHow soon till your breath runs out?One leap, one strike, and the metal snaps away from your faceThat chattering jaw comes unhingedAnd your insincere tongue hangs down from your neckI plunge through the ribs and grasp the steaming, slippery heartIt slides down my throat and I am king again"Tear down these garish walls and let the prisoners free!Throw their gaudy stones out to the sea!Rip these dolls limb from limb, claws proudly unsheathed!Our souls were never meant to be seen.
