The Gaslight Anthem - Orphans lyrics
[The Gaslight Anthem - Orphans lyrics]
Goodbye, circus wheel
Maybe you rest along the seas
I have given you the fire of my
Youth and the triumph of my enemies
And goodbye
Fairweather home and your faithless factories
I have given you the blood and the truth
From the wounds that they laid on me
And whatever they left
I kept it for my own heart
And the lonesome understand with the
Choirs in my head
We were orphans before we were
Ever the sons of regret, my baby
On and on and on
How the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were
Ever the sons in the songs
And now my lights, they never go down
They waltz the moon and the stars for me now
So you can find some local libertine to
Take your daughters out on the town
And I can feel it in my aging bones
How the sound of the rain mixes up
Into the fountains where I
Drank my hero's blood
And so I left you to find my
Very own hat full of rain
And the lonesome understand with the
Choirs in my head
That we were orphans before we were
Ever the sons of regret, my baby
On and on and on
How the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were
Ever the sons in the songs
And now I'm trying to keep it straight
Learning all the streets and the alleyways
And learning where they lead now that
I'm left alone here to drive
But, it's so hard to stand on your
Own against mirrored glass hot and cold
But the clothes I wore just
Don't fit my soul anymore
No, the clothes I wore just
Don't fit my soul anymore
And the lonesome understand with the
Choirs in my head
We were orphans before we were
Ever the sons of regret, my baby
On and on and on
How the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were
Ever the sons of your songs
When we were young we were diamond Sinatras
Like something I saw in a dream
We kept our secrets and rules locked
Up tight like a tomb
Where the ballerinas lay
Maybe you rest along the seas
I have given you the fire of my
Youth and the triumph of my enemies
And goodbye
Fairweather home and your faithless factories
I have given you the blood and the truth
From the wounds that they laid on me
And whatever they left
I kept it for my own heart
And the lonesome understand with the
Choirs in my head
We were orphans before we were
Ever the sons of regret, my baby
On and on and on
How the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were
Ever the sons in the songs
And now my lights, they never go down
They waltz the moon and the stars for me now
So you can find some local libertine to
Take your daughters out on the town
And I can feel it in my aging bones
How the sound of the rain mixes up
Into the fountains where I
Drank my hero's blood
And so I left you to find my
Very own hat full of rain
And the lonesome understand with the
Choirs in my head
That we were orphans before we were
Ever the sons of regret, my baby
On and on and on
How the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were
Ever the sons in the songs
And now I'm trying to keep it straight
Learning all the streets and the alleyways
And learning where they lead now that
I'm left alone here to drive
But, it's so hard to stand on your
Own against mirrored glass hot and cold
But the clothes I wore just
Don't fit my soul anymore
No, the clothes I wore just
Don't fit my soul anymore
And the lonesome understand with the
Choirs in my head
We were orphans before we were
Ever the sons of regret, my baby
On and on and on
How the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were
Ever the sons of your songs
When we were young we were diamond Sinatras
Like something I saw in a dream
We kept our secrets and rules locked
Up tight like a tomb
Where the ballerinas lay