How They Built Rome Lyrics

They gnaw away your brain but keep your face surface gold

And expect the course to keep its run

When they understand how they built Rome

Can't come to terms to smile through rain

Why can't I let sadness take its place?

'Cause you need to speak to sadness sometimes

Instead of picking up the petals your loved one's made

I was a thousand bottles screwed on the shelf

Dying to be opened to relieve myself

I was nobody's drink

Didn't see how I felt

I was staring at life in the face itself

And how they built Rome

And how they

How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing?

So give, give, give, give, give it the king

You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real

So give, give, give, give, give it them now

And then your heavy head won't fit the crown

A worn racehorse's odds are nothing of two to one

They'll bleed the fun 'til their God no longer appeals to them

Do you wanna front the papers?

Do you wanna be famous?

And they'll remain nameless when my shortcomings are framed as another working-class-jumped-up failure

They'll see a young kid go south

Blame the genius of words on the rocks and brown

Fingers scrape through my gums so they hear it all

Tell stories of me like they've seen it all

But not yet

How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing?

So give, give, give, give, give it the king

You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real

So give, give, give, give, give it them now

And then your heavy head won't fit the crown

I never, never, never wanna feel like this again

Let these lizards leech off my innocence

I never, never, never wanna feel like this again

Let these lizards leech off my innocence

I never, never, never wanna feel like this again

Let these lizards leech off my innocence

I never, never, never wanna feel like this again

How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing?

So give, give, give, give, give it the king

You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real

So give, give, give, give, give it them now

And then your heavy head won't fit the crown

Now