Like Lions Lyrics - Blind Pilot

(One, two, three...) 

There are those among us willing 

To get by on anything 

Hollow hope of what is coming 

A lifetime dangled by a string 

But this ocean dives so deeply 

And this river runs so wide 

I won't be counted one among them 

Until my soul is satisfied 

Brick and brick of buried hunger 

Keeping all desire dark 

And then we are like lions 

We are tearing it apart 

There are those among us lying 

Saying nothing is for free 

And then we are like lions 

And we will not leave until we eat 

Playing kings and playing peasants 

Do we get what we are owed 

An eagle comes and talks of failure 

A rabbit offers up its throat 

Will they buy even our breathing 

A river strangled by a dam 

Less than one percent are taking 

So tell me who dries up this land 

Is it worse to see no future 

Is it worse to be afraid 

And then we are like lions 

Pumping fire in our veins 

We are born with a perfect hunger 

We are born with a perfect need 

And then we are like lions 

And we are baring all our teeth 

It is coming down the mountain 

Fear that holds you like a cold 

It wants to settle in your footprints 

Keep you still from where you're going 

All you think you know of losing 

All you doubt of innocence 

That big sky still hangs above you 

Every day just wants to quit 

There's no light you see to guide you 

And it scares you just the same 

And then we are like lions 

Nothing dares get in our way 

See your faithless sails drifting 

And your truth just cut apart 

And then we are like lions 

We are golden in our hearts 

And then we are like lions 

We are standing on two feet 

Hanging on the kitchen wall 

For everyone to see 

Get out your banjo 

So we can sing 

There are winds that wrap and hold me 

There are whispers in the trees 

I cannot hold all that is sacred 

They are holding onto me 

Kiss the years that all are dying 

Kiss the face that makes you stay 

They are in your rhythms walking 

They are showing you the way 

Breath and breath above a sickness 

Shouting threats upon your life 

And then we are like lions 

We are fool enough to fight 

It will cheat you in the balance 

Taking more than left to live 

And then we are like lions 

We are strong enough to give 

And then we are like lions 

We are strong enough to give