Weight of the World

[Verse 1] The last man standing in our sinister charade Beneath the crumbling arches of our counterfeit arcade He nobly knelt before us, he sang our savior's chorus We left him spinning bloody plates upon his broken blade, but [Chorus] That's just the weight of the world We do what we must to get by That's just the weight of the world The weak and the weary will never survive That's just the weight of the world We do what we must to stay alive That's just the weight of the world And we'll all be the weak and the weary sometime [Verse 2] One woman whistling a wounded lullaby And preaching pain to every unsuspecting passerby We knew her well before this, she promised portraits of us We cut her throat while she was waiting for the paint to dry, but [Chorus] That's just the weight of the world We do what we must to get by That's just the weight of the world The weak and the weary will never survive That's just the weight of the world We do what we must to stay alive That's just the weight of the world We'll all be the weak and the weary sometime [Bridge] And in the distance we’ll hear melancholy moans The long forgotten have a habit for collecting loans But [Chorus] That's just the weight of the world We do what we must to get by That's just the weight of the world The weak and the weary will never survive That's just the weight of the world We do what we must to stay alive That's just the weight of the world We'll all be the weak and the weary sometime [Modified Chorus] That's just the weight of the world That's just the weight of the world That's just the weight of the world The weak and the weary will never survive That's just the weight of the world That's just the weight of the world That's just the weight of the world We'll all be the weak and the weary sometime