La Dispute - Shall Never Lose Its Power lyrics

The lion isn't sacred when not
Sleeping near the lamb
It is evil when it eats unless
It's feeding from the damned
All the children painted diagrams of
God upon their hands
Hoping somewhere on this shaking earth they
Could find a place to stand

It's a tyrant to the foreigners
Who've never seen the land
They feel safer than a statue when
They've got a spear in hand
It is pregnant with the fury that
The pain in life demands
Yes, it's fear - But
It's a fear that understands

And what's left is a heartbeat, speaking
"hands off your fate, child
You'll bury yourself in mistakes"
Like a dream that i had of lost faith
It fades away but still thunders onward
Every pulse was a hand with it's palm up
Fed with bodies and bread soaked in blood
Somewhere, someday, it'll leave but tell me
Someone where does it go?
What tied our hands tight
To the train tracks, then backed off slowly?
What does the heart say? "See the
Reverse there's an answer there"

I am the moth-drenched love of dead mules
As stable as sand in a windstorm and i
Shake like a spider in the rain when you say
"My, my, the ways I've changed since then
- the ways I've changed"
And all i ever say is "I'm"

And it hit's like a brick to the
Back of your head like, goodbye, five times
One for each finger and you say
"My, my, the ways I've changed since then
-the ways I've changed"
And all i ever say is "i'm tired"

We turned our water into whining, shouting
"let us be like Christ"
But then the whining turned to wonder
And the wonder turned to ice
Once, we were graceful steeples
Hands held upward and eyes wide in suspense
Now, we are tangled like intruders in
The wires of the fence

For a fence is built to protect
What lies inside of it
Do you still feel sick? because i do