Soiled Gifts Lyrics

You've unknowingly inherited a broken planet

Dystopian throats, choke on granite

And banquets of flesh, serve what we bred

Because birds, herds, birches are worth more dead

Money is your God here, we've normalised luxury

Refined poor on how you gratify your gluttony

Gaped a chasm between the rich and the broke

Akin to the gorging pull of a black hole

We sacrifice time, on alters of industry

Accept credit here for all types of misery

You and I, will be survived by institutions

That create problems, commodify solutions

We expand... at the motherland's expense

Marvel at her ruins, whilst muffling her breathe

But for all our needs, views and stress

We're just flawed beasts trying to do what's best

Kneeling to makeshift kings

Kissing jaded rings

Can't forsake our things

Clutching scared sins

Reaching for wayward dreams

Don't know what they mean

Desires made to seem

That which we gravely need

Welcome aboard, this ship of addiction

The fish are dead or dying, I think that we're sinking

Nets tangle fiction, information overload

Rowing into Roanoke, hoping Croatoan spoke

I'm drowning in a crowd in our nations capital

Wondering how much of this tangible stress really matters at all

Guided by a fraudulent significance

Blind to the many forms of our malignance

You were born to the warring twenties

Disease, hostility, scorn and frenzy

Products, of iPad child care

Choked by digital glares that reside where

Innumerable hands plea and vie for you attention

Grab, pull, scratch for a like or a mention

But for all our freedoms, trials and pain

We're just lost sheep trying to find our way

Kneeling to makeshift kings

Kissing jaded rings

Can't forsake our things

Clutching scared sins

Reaching for wayward dreams

Don't know what they mean

Desires made to seem

That which we gravely need

What a disappointing heirloom, this soiled gift

We mishandled the packaging and spoiled it

This is yours now, it's set to self destruct

The world was ours, it was never enough

I ashamed I had a hand in setting that timer

Painting over cracks with a discounted primer

Wiser ones than me, have picked apart the seams

Of this society and all that it means

You were born amidst a mental health crisis

A product of our pressures, expectancies and vices

You see a mind designed to find food and shelter

Breaks when confined to this modern helter skelter

But I felt a shift, a monument has rift

When you two came in to existence

And until the stars defuse and loose their light

And this darkness broods and consumes this life

I will love you!

Kneeling to makeshift kings

Kissing jaded rings

Can't forsake our things

Clutching scared sins

Reaching for wayward dreams

Don't know what they mean

Desires made to seem

That which we gravely need