Language Of The Dead Lyrics - Into The Wide - Delta Spirit

Take this lightning off of me 

Too wonderful for me to keep 

All the stories of ancient greece 

Agamemnon, great ulysses 

Everybody talkin' bout the language of the dead 

Antiquated murmurs maybe dylan might've said 

Well I'm not so self assured 

I can barely sing a word 

Fads of the 60's and the 19th century 

Leo tolstoy and robert e. lee 

We got a war on in our duplicity 

Suburban white blasphemy 

Everybody talkin' bout the language of the dead 

Antiquated murmurs maybe dylan might've said 

Well I'm not so self assured 

I can barely sing a word 

You can skim through every book they read 

You can dress a little smarter and claim your hit 

But the weight you've been seeking, you lifted it 

Plagiarize the twenties you never lived 

Take this lightning off of me 

Too wonderful for me to keep 

Throw your idols into the sea 

Dreamers, get your own dream 

Everybody talkin' bout the language of the dead 

Antiquated murmurs maybe dylan might've said 

Well I'm not so self assured 

I can barely sing a word 

Well I'm not so self assured 

But I don't need to lift a word