Salt the Ground Lyrics

Can you fault an explanation

Of a hallowed consecration

Mother's fighting demons for their kids

Future minor alterations

To avoid an altercation

Watch the men in suits open up their bids

Misty eyes down mirrored halls

Young wives waiting for the call

Or a reassuring letter home

Can you begrudge them their vices

All too late to realize that

They'll be left there waiting on their own

Salt the ground

For your children

For your sister

For the fire we do not expect to survive

Salt the ground

For your mother

For your father

For the hope of ever getting out alive

In our hearts we all are vagrants

Perched on careful prearrangements

We are daughters handed to the groom

In the sky we seek our savior

Always on our best behavior

Reaching absolution in the face of doom

We will march and we will carry

All the things that we are wary of

This fighting can't go on much longer now

Tensions in the air are rising

People swaying, people lying

At the end we wonder if we kept our vows