Palms Read Lyrics - Fortress - Protest The Hero

As often as always 

Evolution comes crawling from the sea 

Alive with the urgency like suicide, like suicide 

Convinced the grass is greener on dry earth 

The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough 

Muffled murmur sneaking through the lecture hall 

They crawl across the island 

Sound of waves 

Embodied water 

Sprouting legs, loud as gallop 

All the young people 

Who took a leap with no faith into a riverbed 

That drowns about as much as it saves 

Slowing down on the ground 

Against the cries of gravity 

Crawling on, half buried in the sand 

Extend a hand to the smallness of death 

Understand that only dying is this colossal 

Creation, shedding skin 

To find the perfect equilibrium like fossils 

All the young people 

Who took a leap of no faith 

All the young cowards acting out 

All the young cowards acting out 

For the braves forever hurled 

Into the waters of their indifferent graves 

For a million years raise your glass 

We will never answer where we came from 

For a million years raise your glass in a cheer 

We'll never answer where we came from 

Only how we got 

For a million years raise your glass 

We will never answer where we came from 

For a million years raise your glass 

Only how we got here