Rodrigo Amarante - Heads or Tails lyrics

The words you said are now crossed
Your face has turned to veiled
They're only worth what they cost
For grace was lost a grail

In tales we praise and pass a hail of thorns
The crown is veiled
While in the backbone trail we learn to play
Heads or tails, could love prevail?
Our memory casts a spell in tale
The words you crossed are now cast
They’re timbered, somber and pale
The first will never be last
Unless the past's unveiled

And days of dust and wasted lives
And a chain of bonds and bails
While in the backbone trail you learn to play
Heads or tails, could hate prevail?
Our memory casts a spell from jail

The words you cast are now worm
The sleight is broke and faint
They surely know why they're born
And thus they guessed their fate

And time has passed and hides we’ve dressed
A sight assorts his hail
While in the backbone trail a choice is made
Heads or tails, what freedom veils?
Our memory casts a spell survailed

The words you've worned are not yours
They're taken from a saint
What they once meant by the lord
The house of lords shall taint
This train parades a deck of spades
It shades a nightingale
While in the backbone trail we learn to pray
Oh

Heads or tails, could love prevail?
Our memory casts a spell
Oh, well, when it fails

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