DESCRIPTION:
breathe now, while you have a choice
i watched your color fade
you're a siren without a voice

don't leave me here
to carry the banner
like the string to the hammer
you were the key pressed too many times
now my hand's on a still chest
praying for short breaths
awaiting a miracle

leave now, all that you're buried in
shed your leaves, catch the crow
a soft swallow to sing again
you raise the colors of the king to slay the ghost
but it's the romance of holding your breath til you get what you want
that keeps you home

don't leave me here
to find juniper casings
at your feet while your tasting
the sour of sweet from the life you took
you were the still before morning
a storm without warning
a page from a better book

what are you waiting for?

leave now, live out your safer bet
and tell me that you don't have regret

you were a song sung in passing
a shadow left casting
now your pages are burning
from your diagram lasting
i drew the sick from your shoulder
to watch you recover
start living for something
or you'll die here for nothing

This is a track off of the second full-length/EP, 'Sever Your Roots/Bury The Axe', by 'The Felix Culpa'. This edition has the 'Bury The Axe' EP bundled at the end. Please buy the album and support the band! Thanks :-)

Band Website: http://www.thefelixculpa.com/
Album Website (for lyrical analysis): http://www.severyourroots.com/

Artist: The Felix Culpa
Album: Sever Your Roots/Bury The Axe
Genre: Indie/Post-Hardcore/Progressive/Experimental
Year: 2010

Track Listing:

***Sever Your Roots***

1. New Home Life
2. Our Holy Ghosts
3. The Constant
4. Roots
5. Escape To The Mountain, Lest Thou Be Consumed
6. The First One To The Scene Of An Accident Always Gets Blood On Their Hands
7. Unwriting Our Songs
8. Mutiny
9. Rum And Cigarettes
10. Because This Is How We Speak
11. It's Raining At Indian Well
12. What You Call Thought Control, I Call Thought Control
13. An Instrument
14. Apologies

***Bury The Axe***

15. Mallets
16. Towers
17. Spaces

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