The Protomen - Keep Quiet lyrics

I've seen your face in the shadows
I've seen your face in the places
I wasn't meant to be
I've heard them whisper about you
I've heard the men in the bars
And I've seen the women lock
Their doors at night lock your doors tonight
They say your eyes are on fire
They say you'd kill a man for walking
The wrong side of the line
The wrong side of the line
But men, they say a lot of foolish things
And in the end the only words
I can find to believe in are mine

They say: (This city)
This city (She's been dead)
She's been dead for years now (For years now)
For years now (For years now)
So death is (So death is)
Not something (Not something)


Not something that scares me (That scares me)
That scares me
There's worse things (There's worse things)
Than death here (Than death here)
They told me (Keep quiet)

I will not be told where to stand!
I will not be told what to say
Not by man or machine
Not by you, not by anyone tonight!
You're gonna have to do better than fear
You're gonna have to step out
Of the shadows and fight!
And when they see your face again
They will know what it means
To have fear dragged out into the light
Drag it out!

They say: (This city)
This city (She's been dead)
She's been dead for years now (For years now)
For years now (For years now)
So death is (So death is)
Not something (Not something)
Not something that scares me!
(That scares me) that scares me

So come on! Come on!
Step out into the light!

The red-eyed assassin stepped from the
Shadows he'd been keeping pace
With a motorcycle racing at top
Speed for an hour, yet he showed no sign
Of fatigue the gray haired man
Watched from the alley, tensing visibly as
The machine revealed it'self joe slowly
Backed away from the bike
Deliberately withdrawing towards the
Gray haired man in the alley
He stopped as his foot
Brushed against something solid

The sniper robot's hand never once went
For the gun at it's side
It leaned in, a large blade
Clenched in it's left fist
Waiting for the proper moment

So this city! (This city)
She's been dead (She's been dead)
For years now (For years now)
For years now (For years now)
So death is (So death is, Not something)
Not something that scares me!
(That scares me)
That scares me (That scares me)
There's worse things (This city)
Than death here (She's been dead)
(For years now)
There's loss and there's silence and sadness!
(For years now) joe's hands were shaking
(So death is) So come on
(Not something) Come on!
(That scares me) Just open your mouths
And revive it! (That scares me)
Just open your mouths and revive it!
This city she's been dead
For years now for years now
So death is not something
That scares me that scares me
This city she's been dead
For years now for years now
This city she's been dead
For years now for years now
This city she's been dead
For years now this city

Joe leaned forward and charged
Towards the machine if he was going to die
He would go down swinging he plunged
His shoulder into the chest of
The automaton with every
Bit of strength he could
Summon, Joe thrust upward
And both man and machine left the
Ground in an arc by the
Time they slammed back
Into the asphalt, the machine was on top
It's cold hands tightening around
Joe's neck the impact sent the pipe
Bounding far from Joe's reach
Joe's fingers clawed at the smooth
Metal covering the machine
Searching for a chink in it's armor
His hand found the gun instead

The light of the blast was painful
Even through Joe's closed eyes he opened
Them slowly carefully he found the machine
Lying several feet away, immobilized
With a smoking hole in it's chest it's red
Eye fading and flickering joe
Rose he approached
The machine he pointed the gun at the robot's
Head and slid his finger over the trigger
Steeling himself for the blast
The gray haired man stopped him
The man knelt down -
His face inches from the
Machine's - and spoke
His voice gruff and trembling

"I built this it's mine to destroy"

With surprising speed
His right hand shot to Joe's
Boot and withdrew the knife
With his left hand he grabbed
The machine by the
Jugular-shaped electrical conduit at
It's throat and sliced a single swift
Blow the eye went dark the machine was dead

The two faced each other in
The middle of the street
Joe's labored breaths drowning out the
Telescreen in the distance

"My name is Thomas Light"

Returning to the lifeless machine
At his feet, light motioned
For the speechless Joe to
Assist him together
They dragged the remains of the
Murderer out of the light
And into the protection of the
Alley light sheathed the
Knife into Joe's boot holster and
Turned back to the machine
He examined the assassin for
A few seconds and
Nodded with a few deft motions
He detached the dark
Green helmet from the body of the robot
Tossing it to Joe

"Here try this on"