Scarecrows (Deluxe Edition)

Although it's right to stay and fight

The two of us are not quite fortified

With the battle of our lives on the horizon

Neophytes, we're none the wiser

I can testify, we won't survive

For are we scarecrows, or sentinels?

Standing strong or faux men nailed down to a pole?

Will we ever grow a proper sense of panic

In a world so inorganic

Or do you suppose, we're straw-filled clothes?

For the way we were was the way we learned to live

We couldn't give the things we never had to give

But when we fall we might ascend

And begin again

Maybe alone we have no hope

But if we run and see the world left to its own

Heaven knows that if we flee for our survival

Peace would leave on our arrival

Oh no, we left behind our shameless minds

For the way we were was the way we learned to live

We couldn't give the things we never had to give

But when we fall we may ascend

And begin again

Remember when you find my bones

Remember that I told you so

I told you so

I told you so

And when my ashes fall like snow

Remember that I told you so

I told you so

I told you so

Though they've begun to load their guns

As long as breath still fills the chambers of our lungs

You will find a shouting truth as from a turret

See if faith can stop a bullet

Watch the broken rise with stronger spines

They're Lazarus, the last of us

The comatose, the dearest friends we ever lost

Lift your head and see a tree become a forest

Our duet becomes a chorus

We can feel the rush of your own blood

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The way we were was the way we learned to live

We couldn't give the things we never had to give

But when we fall we must ascend

And begin again