XOI Lyrics

My father's loved one woman

But not well

At least that's the story

He would tell

You never know if they

Really fell

Or just loved the nearest person

And hoped it ain't hell

But he has studied war

And I have studied trade

I pray my sons a poet who will

Sing about our days

So I live by the ocean

I walk in the shade

Convince myself better

Means father away

I yearn for a love

That has sent me away

And only when hurt

Do I make myself pray

Surrounded by statues

Of heroes and kings

Ozymandias

I'm kissing his ring

To dust I will fall and

To dirt I will sink

Death holds a cup

And I beg for a drink

My hands are a map

Of the places I've been

Scarred cut and burned

A remembrance in skin

So pointing forward

And closing my fist

Onward I move finding hope in all this