Rickety Bridge

[Cecil Otter] Well as soon as you got out from the aim of the sniper You took a rest next to the fangs of a viper But it’s raining tonight for you I know you love the rain I watch you drink it up and strike another flame And when you came to show your face to the animals Who swore it was intangible to orchestrate a radical I saw your eyes go from lower case to capital It’s like you had to pull the rug from underneath yourself to feel alive I’ve seen the size of that painting in your mind And I can be the frame when it arrives We’ll drive until the sun comes up With a better way to burn us and when it does we’ll make our getaway And surface when the moon is full, it’s beautiful We left the root of all evil rotten in the ground We’re bound to live another way Like some underpaid runaways It’s an understatement Turn the page, there’s too much to say [Hook] So from the pavement we walk Into the faces we haunt Into the weight of the cross we bear We repair the stitches and beware the witches Who feed where we live It’s, it’s a rickety bridge (3x) The kids are sickly, they’re panicked, and they’re anxious They’re lookin’ for a woman with a command of the language We watch them beat their hands against their cages From the outside they’re lookin’ to get back in And as soon as they got out from the aim of the sniper They took a rest next to the fangs of the viper But it’s raining tonight for you I know you love the rain I watch you drink it up and strike another flame And when you came to show your face to the animals Who swore it was intangible to orchestrate a radical I saw your eyes go from lower case to capital It’s like you had to pull the rug from underneath yourself to feel alive [Hook x6]