Innocence, No Matter the Cost Lyrics

When you are an anvil, hold you still

When you are a hammer, strike your fill

I am a rose I am sunken seed

I am the cause you need

It's a stroke in the right direction

But I'm lost in the collapse

Of a wave on the shore

Of forgotten cares

Where is that promise you made?

Where is the bridge you built so long ago?

Washed under the cradle of certainty

I find my gaze on the idol, the idols

You once forgave, but now…

For want of a nail, the shoe is lost

For want of a shoe, the horse is gone

For want of a horse, oh horse where is your rider?

Oh the battle is on, it's on

But we listen in rubble!

We listen in the rubble!

Oh coastlands, renew their strength!

Let them come close

I want to see the veins in their eyes

Draw near, so close

I want to feel the caverns of your pulse

Who's stepping close from the east?

Is it Eden?

Or the prophets I devised?

Who comes for a trampling?

To be dust under the blade?

Who is this that meets the end like a bird from the sky?

Who is this that makes me flee blind with the end in my eye?

The alchemist strengthens the gold

The prophet recants all those lies foretold

Oh fear not, fear not, but why I am afraid?

Who is this that smooths the anvil?

And strikes with a blade?

Who is this that smooths the anvil?

And strikes with a blade?

Who is this that smooths the anvil?

And strikes with a blade?

But says it is good, fear not worm Jacob

Oh but aren't you the worm?

The worm of Jonah?

Lord! Help me!

Thresh the mountain!

Let the wind carry away!

Thresh the mountain!

Let the wind carry away!

Oh the threshing sledge, new and sharp

Grinning like a jaguar

Who comes this way in peace?

I want a strong man

I want a strong man

I want a strong man

So don't wrinkle your face

Iron sharpens the iron that engraves

I want a strong man

So don't wrinkle your face

Iron sharpens the iron that engraves

I want a strong man

So don't wrinkle your face

Iron sharpens the iron that engraves

I want a strong man

So don't wrinkle your face

Iron sharpens the iron that engraves

I want a strong man

So don't wrinkle your face

Iron sharpens the iron that engraves

I want a strong man

So don't wrinkle your face

Iron sharpens the iron that engraves

Strokes of purple

Paint on your pillow

Cursive riddles of innocence, no matter the cost

I'll be your strong man

Wait for me outside the grave

Cries of innocence through the silence you paved

6 steps behind you

6 feet below these numbered days

Cursed forever to circle this endless figure eight

I'll be your strong man

Leather footed, as I stand

Cursive riddles of innocence, no matter the cost

How many reasons?

Will you forget me forever? Day after day?

How long until I finally collapse inside?

Finally collapse inside

I'll be your strong man

I have no innocence

I'll give you innocence, no matter the cost