Capital City

lyrics by David Hammes

Yesterday, I stayed behind to find another brother in the trees
Who sees the chance to dance across the frost
That settled on the metal forest green.
He perched upon her shoulder, told her stories of an older time to be
And then she linked the ink to something real
That the steel could never tether to its dream


About to run, about to hide
Behind a lonely labyrinth of yellow lines
Around the sun, around we slide
Along the empty concrete carpets of our lives.


Today brought rain and pain to all the people,
sheep who'll sleep right through the light of day
To say they'd stayed the course to force the will
To fill the traceless space with whites and greys.
The less you guess, the more you know,
So throw another thick brick on the wall
And fall back lacking any answers to the questions that we never asked at all.


About to run, about to find
We've wasted all the ticking seconds on a lie
Around the sun, about to...


Die inside my empty coffin
Off in waters much to clear to hide
The tears that sting these fingers, fear that lingers
On beyond my darkest frames of mind.
I'd like to think the sinking feeling we're falling is absolutely wrong,
But it makes me smile to know I'll always have
Six feet of earth to one day call my home.


About to run, about to find
We've wasted all the ticking seconds on a lie
Around the sun, around we slide
Along the empty concrete carpets of our lives.

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