Thorns Lyrics - Being As An Ocean

[Verse 1] 

If cunning was our birthright 

Then falsity became our sport 

Beings like trellises of roses 

And vines whose beauty so splendidly hid 

The vicious biting of recompense 

Ours alone to bare and grit 

Self-designed deceptions 

Jutting out of our skin 

Warning all passers-by 

"Careful, I'm beautiful, but you wouldn't like what's within 

For while reveling in my form, you'll only bleed from my sins" 

Perhaps the change began in the springs of our infancy 

Watered with poison, stunting in its toxicity 

Or cutback too much in our pruning 

Trimmed with shaking hands, selfish neuroses 

Left jagged with self-loathing, insecurities 

But we don't have to let it dictate 

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[Chorus] 

Shake the death from your bones 

Shake the death from your bones 

Shake the death from your bones 

[Verse 2] 

Shake free of the yoke, our mental oppressions 

No longer frozen, the key in our possession 

Swing open your cell, break off that rearview 

Even as the tree grows out of the heart of stone 

Our past will not dictate how tall we will grow 

[Chorus] 

Shake the death from your bones 

Shake the death from your 

Shake the death from your bones 

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[Outro] 

Will dwelling in the negatives 

Ever bring about the light? 

Will living in the darkness 

Ever expose what's right? 

(Shake the death from your bones)