Destroyer - This Night lyrics

They led us on they said it would be yours
Tear down the borders, stop
Patrolling the shores, let us in
We wrote a winter song
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Don't shelve the opera
You've been working This long on it
Twelve years on the Eastside
And still so house proud

All the neighborhood angels are humming
The psalms to themselves again
Oh, they seem to think that when you show
Up you'd look good in somebody's arms

Oh, you should have been a clerk
You should have stayed a stranger
You should have just done the work
But, it's too late now, school's out

Wildcats you were supposed to go wild
Butchers you shouldn't be obsessed
With a child now Diorama Pete thinks he
Just sunk the fleet much like him
You know I live to be cornered so come on

Hey Easterner, open your mouth
Don't speak in tones
I know there's beauty in the bones
Of the dam that burst
I know you look good in the
Shadow of the Diamond Monger's thirst
But get out

To the left there is an ocean
There is a mountain on the right
Now will you walk away or take the blame
For the unfortunately named children
Of This day children of This Night