James - Of Monsters & Heroes & Men lyrics

Stray cats with fish heads
Feeding their litters feral kids fight
Over rats tailed from gutters
Bookie mouth brokers rotten fruit sellers
Pickpockets ghost through the crowd

He climbs onto boxes by market stall traders
Toothless and grey haired
Thousand yard stare he had a vision
Which broke the receiver
Receiving transmission surface to air
Either way i'm in awe of you
Either way we'll survive we'll survive

Conjuring devils angels and demons
Only the children see shape to his tone
Laughing and crying his song fell upon us
We buried his treasure along with the bones
Arms held aloft a Y to the sky
Innocent witness he testified
Drained of his purpose
He falls off the quayside
Absorbed by the ocean rolled by the tide

Either way i'm in awe of you
Either way we'll survive
Either way i'm in awe of you
Either way we'll survive we'll survive

Under the power lines
Which crackle and sparkle under the freeway
Now mostly rubble the hungry still gather
To fill up with stories
Of monsters and heroes and men
Under the stars which prick us and call us
Connect us to hope
That perfection's within is
Here on the ground
We're reckless and hopeless
Damned by the slip of a pen rambling poets
Manic with vision
We are the drivers yet we feel driven
Moths in the moonlight
Fooled by a flashlight caught in a jam jar
Gasping for air rambling poets
Manic with vision
We are the drivers yet we feel driven
Moths in the moonlight
Fooled by a flashlight caught in a jam jar
Gasping for air either way i'm in awe of you
Either way we'll survive we'll survive