Asleep In The Chapel Lyrics - War All The Time - Thursday

Three chalk outlines sleep in the dirty street 

And in our beds, under the sheets 

They're the halo of guilt hanging around your neck 

Next to the rosary you count falling asleep 

And we're praying 

These are the symptoms 

Of letting go of all our hope 

Since we can't compete with martyred saints 

We'll douse ourselves in gasoline and hang our bodies from the lampposts 

So that our shadows turn into bright lights 

'White lights, white heat' 

We'll make as we're backing out in the center lane 

(We swerve) 

To the beat 

(Spill) 

All the ink 

No revisions 

Do you hear the church bells ringing? 

Wake up!! Wake up in an outline and try to speak 

With the shattered voice of the lives we lead 

(Have we slept too long) 

Between the bullet holes in a stained glass window state? 

And we're praying 

These are the symptoms 

Of letting go of all our hope 

(When we repent) 

And we're praying 

(We fall on the page) 

(Read in the margins) 

We are the symptoms 

Of letting go of all our hope 

Someday we'll be complete like modern saints 

Baptize our kids in gasoline 

And hang our doubts up in cathedrals 

So that they turn to faith in the colored sun 

'Red rain, red rain' 

We'll make as we're backing out in the center lane 

(We swerve) 

To the beat 

(Spill) 

All the ink 

(No revisions) 

Do you hear the church bells ringing? 

They ring for you 

(We woke up this morning to a sky with no air in it 

And the street is filled with a thousand burning crosses 

And what we thought was the sunrise, just passing headlights) 

Still the choir girls sing 

'Oh lord, can you save us, save us? 

Oh, lord, sing hallelujah. 

Oh lord, can you save us, save us? 

Oh, lord, sing hallelujah.' 

They are the symptoms 

Of letting go of all our hope 

We're falling asleep with open eyes 

Falling asleep inside the chapel 

Falling asleep in chalk outlines 

Falling asleep as the headlights pass us by