1.Called Out In the Dark
It's like we just can't help ourselves
'Cause we don't know how to back down
We were called out to the streets
We were called into the towns
How the heavens they opened up
Like arms of dazzling gold
With our rain-washed histories
Well, we do not need to be told
Show me now, show me the arms aloft
Every eye trained on a different side
This magic, this drunken semaphore and I
We are listening and we're not blind
This is your life, this is your time
We are listening and we're not blind
This is your life, this is your time
I was called out in the dark
by a choir of beautiful heat
And as the kids took back the parks
You and I were left with the streets
Show me now, show me the arms aloft
Every eye trained on a different side
This magic, this drunken semaphore and I
We are listening and we're not blind
This is your life, this is your time
We are listening and we're not blind
This is your life, this is your time
We are listening and we're not blind
This is your life, this is your time
We are listening and we're not blind
This is your life, this is your time
2.Fallen Empires
You called my name in the dark
Called me back to the start
The condensation is building tension
Stubborn silence is formed
Around our bodies, it's warm
The cool wet grasses as summer passes
Frightened under attack
Fallen flat on my back
Arms and legs, I'm too scared to beg
Harm me most when it's light
Thought of you don't sit right
I need the darkness, a desperate embrace
Razing cities to dust
Faces dripping in lust
Fallen empires and raging bushfires
All your words unfounded
Secret lives bound in bed
Living backwards and tangled back words
Ruined everything right
So good can't see the light
From my cave I can see the wave
Fallen empires and raging bushfires
Ooooh
We are the light...
We are the light...(Run to the fire)
3.My Brothers
You might think you're cursed
But what's so much worse
is the knowledge that you are
When you're cursed with a love
that is buried so deep,
that you can't dig it out of you
When your crystal ball
is a towering wall
and the road is a dark book end
You know what remains
is what needs maintain
But your temper is not your friend
Take it easy on me now my brothers
Take it easy on me now my brothers
Well their games are driving
you up the wall
and they're wearing you like a crown
But you're jar trapped bees
and it's plain to see
that you can't tell what's up or down
Take it easy on me now my brothers
Take it easy on me now my brothers
Well it's no surprise
in those steel blue eyes
I can still see some flecks of fear
But you've grown up fast
So forget the past
and just hurry yourself from here
Take it easy on me now my brothers
Take it easy on me now my brothers
Take it easy on me now my brothers
Take it easy on me now my brothers
4.I'm Ready
This island calls my name
and I'm broken in two
The gods find you when you're calm
and they rip down the sky
The path clears for long enough
to glimpse where you should be
Are you wolf or are you lamb?
Are you too scared to choose?
I'm ready for the answers,
I'm ready for the drop
I'm ready to be shocking,
I'm ready to be shocked
Your cold hands feel good on me
and my scorched heart cools fast
The stranger taught me all I know
of the world and other thirst
The alleyways and darkest lanes
of my tired mind form a star
Frightening stone of dark red heat
that burns through my whole body
I'm ready for the answers,
I'm ready for the drop
I'm ready to be shocking,
I'm ready to be shocked
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