DESCRIPTION:
i don't remember ever being someone else
but here i am, on this stage singing like i mean it
watching you stare back at me
like you've seen a ghost, which is pretty close
you can see through what i believed in
i was an instrument, i was a messenger
but what you are doesn't matter until you've sold it
and i've nothing left for you to buy

i let you watch us whither
in the name of something bigger
i guess that i was given
something greater than my hands could hold

i know that i could fake this and you'd eat it up
but it's not in me to cheat your parents out of their money
see, i'm no more a tortured artist than a self-serving, temperamental addict to the sound of my own praise
and i could write for days and days without finding a word that would bear repeating
but still, i can't put this pen down, like it's going to somehow make you proud or make me more of a man than i am now,
or allow us the words to respond for the years that this song has taken
and i've nothing left for us to say

so this is where i brought us
to float without a purpose
the fire i lit consumed us
the boat, the crew, the tourists
we all paid to be
something greater than my hands could hold

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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