Alexisonfire - Young cardinal lyrics

Strange things happen in nighttime hours
Yesterday's buds, tomorrow's flowers
Those who speak numbers
Refuse the great forgiver
Powerful men raise your hands and deliver
All the superstitions to which we all cling
While high minds in Geneva
Ponder e8 vs string
The sun hides it'self, concealing it's grin
And wait's for the dawn
To reveal it'self again oh, young cardinals
Nesting in the trees oh, hear our songs
And reign your innocence on me
Strange things happen in the nighttime hours
White tails graze and wolves devour
Ghosts of old loves are
Blowing through the pines
Nicotine babies are being born without spines
The god of the sea is swinging his trident
We stoke our fires with the bones of tyrants
The sun
It retreats through the dust and the din
And wait's for the dawn
To reveal it'self again oh, young cardinals
Nesting in the trees oh, hear our song
And reign your innocence on me
Young cardinals take flight
Return to nest in the black of night
There were things you were not meant to know
Young cardinals take flight
Return to nest in the black of night
There were things you were not meant to know
Oh, young cardinals nesting in the trees
Oh, hear our song
And reign your innocence on me
Oh, young cardinals oh, young cardinals
Oh, young cardinals oh