Vanishing Lessons Lyrics - Tourniquet

Silently vanishing, then reappearing 

Slipping away for a while 

Start dematerializing before your eyes 

Always a step from our grasp 

At the turn of the century 

Lived a Mr. Houdini 

Shrouded in a mystery 

He fooled all humanity 

Why is it a mystery 

The very thing that seems to me 

Explains itself so easily 

The love of wealth brings misery 

Things we acquire means fuel for the fire 

The feeling is gone, then our soul we will pawn 

Things we acquire means fuel for the fire 

The feeling is gone, then our soul we will pawn 

Chinese water torture cell 

And metamorphosis 

Jail escapes, buried alive 

Walking through a solid wall 

Suicide among the rich 

Defies the laws of reason which 

Tells us those who have it all 

Must often answer to death's call 

Things we acquire means fuel for the fire 

The feeling is gone, then our soul we will pawn 

Dollars for happiness, that's what the world tells us 

Pour all yourself in the pursuit of wealth 

Things we acquire means fuel for the fire 

The feeling is gone, then our soul we will pawn 

Dollars for happiness, that's what the world tells us 

Pour all yourself in the pursuit of wealth 

"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless 

which cannot be touched without emotion. Even 

with the utterly lost to whom life and death are 

equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can 

be made" 

Ever since I was a boy 

I have always kept your laws 

Now I want to follow you 

Join you in your noble cause 

Jesus turned to him and said 

Sell all you have, give to the poor 

The rich your ruler hung his head 

Not to follow, walked instead