Lyrics - Living Things

[Joe_lp]

---LOST IN THE ECHO---

 

Yeah, yo…

 

 

You were that-Foundation

Never gonna be another one-No

I followed-So taken

So conditioned I could never let go

Then sorrow-Then sickness

Then the shock when you flip it on me

So hollow-So vicious

So afraid I couldn’t let myself see

That I could never be held

Back or up no-Or hold myself

Check the rep yep-You know mine well

Forget the rest let-Them know my hell

There and back yep-My soul ain’t sell

Get respect off the best-They fell

Let the rest be the tail they tell

That I was there sayin’

 

Chorus

 

And these promises-Broken

Deep below-Each word gets lost in the echo

So one last lie-I can see through

This time I finally let you

Go… Go… Go…

 

Verse2

 

Test my will-Test my heart

Let me tell you how the odds gonna stack up

Y’all go hard?-I go smart

How’s it working every isle in the back huh?

I’ve seen that-Frustration

Been ‘cross the loss a tall new

And I’ve come back-Unshaken

Let down/I lived and let go

So you can let it be known

I don’t hold back-I hold my own

I can’t be mapped-I can’t be cloned

I can’t see flat-It ain’t my tone

I can’t fall back-I came too far

Hold myself up and lower my scars

Let the bells ring wherever they are

‘Cause I was there saying

 

Chorus

 

And these promises-Broken

Deep below-Each word gets lost in the echo

So one last lie-I can see through

This time I finally let you

Go

 

Verse3

 

No!-You can tell 'em all now

I don't back up-I don't back down

I don't fold up-And I don't bow

I don't roll over-Don't know how

I don't care-Where-The enemies are

Can't be stopped I know go hard?

Won't forget how I got this far

But every time sayin'

 

Go, Go, Go

 

 

---IN MY REMAINS---

 

 

Seperate - Sifting through the wreckage

I can't concentrate - Searching for a message

In the fear and pain - Broken down and waiting

For the chance - To feel alive

 

Chorus

 

Now in my remains

Our promises that never came

Except this silent rain

To wash away the worst of me

 

 

Come apart - Falling in the cracks

Of every broken heart - Digging through the wreckage

Of your disregard - Sinking down and waiting

For the chance - To feel alive

 

Bridge

 

Like an army, falling

One by one by one

Like an army, falling

One by one by one

Like an army, falling

One by one by one

Like an army, falling

One by one by one

 

Chorus

 

Now in my remains

Our promises that never came

Except this silent rain

To wash away the worst of me

 

Like an army, falling

One by one by one

Like an army, falling

One by one by one...

 

---CASTLE OF GLASS---

 

 

Take me down to the river bend - Take me down where the fighting ends

Wash the poison from off my skin - Show me how to be whole again

Fly me up on a silver wing - Pass the black where the sirens sing

Warm me up in a nova’s glow - And drop me down to the dream below

 

Chorus

 

‘Cause I’m only a crack - In this castle of glass

Hardly anything left - For you to see

For you to see…

 

Bring me home in a blinding dream - Through the secrets that I have seen

Wash the sorrow from off my skin - And show me how to be whole again

 

Chorus...

 

 

‘Cause I’m only a crack - In this castle of glass

Hardly anything left - For you to see

For you to see…

 

Bridge

 

‘Cause I’m only a crack - In this castle of glass

Hardly anything else - I need to be…

 

‘Cause I’m only a crack - In this castle of glass

Hardly anything left - For you to see

For you to see…

 

 

---POWERLESS---

 

You hid your skeletons when I had shown you mine

You woke the devil that I thought you'd left behind

I saw the evidence, the crimson soaking through

Ten thousand promises, ten thousand ways to lose

 

And you held it all

But you were careless to let it fall

You held it all

And I was by your side

Powerless

 

I watched you fall apart and chased you to the end

I left with emptyness that words cannot defend

You'll never know what I became because of you

Ten thousand promises, ten thousand ways to lose

 

And you held it all

But you were careless to let it fall

You held it all

And I was by your side

Powerless

 

And you held it all

But you were careless to let it fall

You held it all

And I was by your side

Powerless

Edited June 16, 2012 by Joe_lp