Past And Future Ruins Lyrics - No Devolución - Thursday

Hold you hand to the fire 

And your eyes to the sky 

They're just different shades of cellophane 

Taped against the lights. 

Faulty seams, drawn on plastic leaves 

Past and future replicas 

Past and future streams 

Hold your head underwater 

And try to see if you can breathe 

Or if you drown in the shallow 

depths of your belief 

Because somewhere there must be a better place 

Here you call to your neighbor 

Only to see the track is set and they're 

Walking back and forth in a circle 

Saying the same words 

Making their lips sync 

In time with psalms on Sunday mornings 

And all their hearts align with pale fire 

So call the appear ambulance 

To trace the paper cuts 

Don't call on me, I'm a plastic reed 

Bending in the feigning wind 

Of artificial fields 

Then you read the paper 

Of a woman's early death 

And note explaining why she left 

It says: 

"Somewhere there must be a better place 

And it's marked with the fountain I've seen 

glowing in my sleep." 

And so you want to die and leave this shadow land behind 

To eviscerate the truth from the lie 

Because somewhere there must be a better place 

but 

What we thought was a fountain of life and light 

turns out to be a 

Mountain crushing down upon us, casting it's shadow 

Closing the distance 

between us and Babylon 

And all our songs 

are just the sounds of past and future days 

Past of future names 

Collapsing around us