Tandem Lyrics - Scurrilous - Protest The Hero

Everyone knows that cancer 

Takes bites of every family 

And it eats some families whole 

Dance around the issue 

Take issue with the answers provided 

The past few years radiate with treatment 

But to every day she'll put her cap on and greet them 

She's got demons but you'll never meet them 

Yeah we hope one day that she can finally beat them all 

She laughs for us 

She laughs so we don't worry 

She smiles through the pain 

And keeps the details blurry 

My intentions are not to expose 

The depths of her trouble aren't mine to disclose 

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose 

It drips down to the earth and then begins to compose 

And if there's one thing that remains 

So crystal clear to us 

It's that the wandering hands of the gods 

Are so goddamn mysterious 

Like there could be a justification 

For the lives it takes and the lives that it's shaken 

This isn't a eulogy 

Or a requiem 

Just some words I've sketched out 

'Cause I haven't said them 

This isn't about her father or brother 

Just a few simple words so she knows that I love her 

And tragedy will never disaffect her 

I hope she knows how much I respect her 

My intentions are not to expose, in verse or in prose 

The depths of her troubles aren't mine to disclose 

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose 

It drips down to the earth and begins to compose 

A song worth singing 

A wound that keeps on stinging 

And that one sinking feeling 

It's always worth clinging onto 

And a stone at a glass house 

That's always worth slinging 

She laughs for us 

She laughs so we don't worry 

She smiles through the pain 

And keeps the details blurry 

My intentions are not to expose 

The depths of her trouble aren't mine to disclose 

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose 

It drips down to the earth and begins to compose 

Saints walk the earth 

They don't patrol the skies 

They're the people right behind you 

Riding tandem through the night 

It's the comfort that's discovered 

Between two sets of eyes 

It's the hand that stills the other 

That shakes like candlelight 

Like candlelight