Fucked Up - Triumph of Life lyrics

You found the world with your eyes
And set the struggle alight
I turned it back, black and white
So I could stay out of sight
We fight each other alive and throw
Ourselves at the triumph of life

I grew wings and a beak just
To stay on my feet
I spill blood from my mouth
Into yours and survive
You chased me off of the ground
I drew you into the clouds, triumph of life

Many millions of a kind
To the ground confined
The few heads that rise up learn
To take to the sky
Carry the breed in a seed as the family dies
The dead emboldened by the living
Who learned how to fly
As you get better at killing
I get better at surviving
When you get better at looking
I get better at hiding
Evolution of sames who change
Shape in the race
And so we run together just to
Stay in the same place
Red queens in our genes as
We rippled and swell
Unfold the heart of a shell
We move in step like machines
Not one but a sum, not a drop but a wave
Similar we behave not a point but a hum

The war is like a symphony
That rings through our lives
We dance together in violence for
A chance to survive
We spin around each other to
Rise up as we strive
To gain an edge and for a
Moment leave the struggle behind

Geminate to attain the greatness
The dance sustains
We're both links in the chain
Wound tight in a braid
We throw our lives at the game
And at each other we aim
Crusades of change for the best
We made each other

Became worlds of color and war
Wrought out of peaceful greys
Violent orison that the best within
Us all will arise compete for elites
Erode the old to select without death
There's no best winnow to perfect
Triumph of life

We twist around the hot white fire of life
At once apart and together we split to unite
Evolve the same strength in each other
That we use to collide
Becoming synonyms for antonyms
We combine to divide
We kill each other as a test
And use what's left as defense
Your poison builds in me
A venom that I use to dispense
Swallow in, spit out, give birth to death
We persist in each other dust
To life to exist
We've fought a war with each other
Since the beginning of time
Two coils form a ladder that we use to climb
The generation of nations of
Diversity we overcame
To combine and then to give up our lives
As we run from the violence that
We left in our wake
We give dust to the lives that
To live we must take to usher in a new means
To conceive please, believe
That we would die today to save
The ones on the way
We closed the volume of life and
Each page took a side
They came together and erased what
Was once a divide a symmetry
Finally as we transcend our strife
There are no sides no divide
Just the triumph of life