Cassius, - Lyrics - Fleet Foxes

Past my window, out in the street 

Life makes short work of all I see 

Men take the change from beggars 

Tight bound in sheets 

Red and blue, the useless sirens scream 

The song of masses, passing outside 

All inciting the fifth of July 

When guns for hire open fire, blind against the dawn 

When the knights in iron took the pawn 

You and I, out into the night 

Held within the line that they've drawn 

As I went they're all beside us in silence 

As if unaffected amid the violence 

Ooh, are we also tamed? 

I was in a river, as if in water 

Wife, a son, a son, a son, and a daughter 

Ooh, are we also tamed? 

I walked home, no words to say 

Cassius, one month gone on his way 

And who will lead us and who remains to die? 

By a thread, drop my head to cry 

As I went they're all beside us in silence 

As if unaffected amid the violence 

Ooh, are we also tamed? 

I was in a river, as if in water 

Wife, a son, a son, a son, and a daughter 

Ooh, are we also tamed? 

Ooh 

Ooh 

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