Tenebrae Lyrics - Singles - Only Crime

Command and repose and perfect posture 

Set up to segregate afflictions we foster 

The words fall dead, slip down the side 

The wounded risen up and taken from the worst ride 

Out in the cold when we speak solid breath 

We make our moves under cover of death 

Outside the walls with the sick and insane 

No shade or shelter from the shame-flavored rain 

And I can see it's the same as before 

Condemned to suffer the seeds we have sown 

To the degree that we reject and deny 

Too greedy, too selfish to try 

Deadbolt the mind, unplug the phone 

Deny the promise of what's freely been shown 

Just turn away, pretend it's not there 

The strings of ignorance grown too sick to care 

Out on an island of self-centered spite 

Lay in our beds under cover of night 

Curl up and weep, narcissistic in vain 

No shade or shelter from the shame-flavored rain 

And without a shift in course 

We will approach our destination 

Can you deny it? 

Throughout the flames that scorch the civility 

Right off the page of a selfish history 

The tide turns to create it's union 

Now's our chance, time to disconnect 

Preserve some dignity, a system to respect 

It's been justified and relegated 

We bog down in our symptoms of despair 

Too far along to pretend we even care 

Pretend you fucking care