Walls of Angouleme Lyrics

Staring down the barrel of another day I sold

You line up empty promises and paint them faded gold

White is the colour of the flag I raise to heaven

But God is blind, and you just won't be told

Your god is blind, but you just won't be told

And don't your angels love you twice as much as I do

Don't their empty eyes just set you free

Shed your skin beneath the shelter of their feathers

Shed your skin, run with me

On the walls of Angouleme

I saw a picture of myself

I was only skin and bone

Thought that I was someone else

On the walls of Angouleme

I saw the cracks begin to form

I was looking for some peace

I was blown before the storm

Up there on those walls

Or down here on my knees

All your angels railing at me

Up there on those walls

Down on my knees

Just one smile is all I need

These empty rooms, just like the chambers of a heart

Those ghosts and shadows that were with you from the start

You love the money honey I know you love the clothes

Where we're going no-one knows

Where we're heading neither of us know

but I will stand for you

Til the day you break on through

And all your blinded gods are made to see

Riding out, on a rainy morning

Days like these, just you and me

On the walls of Angouleme

I saw a picture of myself

I was only skin and bone

Thought that I was someone else

On the walls of Angouleme

I saw the cracks begin to show

I was looking for some peace

It was the last thing I would know

Up there on those walls

Or down on my knees

All your angels railing at me

Up there on those walls

Down on my knees

Just one smile is all I need

The lady of the lake

she wants a bigger slice of that big old cake

and all the swords she gave me broke upon the wall

My priestess of sorrow

Counting all your lost tomorrows

Wake up I can hear the morning call

On the walls of Angouleme

I saw a picture of myself

I was only skin and bone

Thought that I was someone else

On the walls of Angouleme

I saw those cracks begin to form

I was looking for some peace

I was blown before the storm

Up there on those walls

Down on my knees

All your angels railing at me

Up on those walls

Down on my knees

Just one smile is all I need