The Colossus

New York is losing its vantage

Into the Atlantic

The punishment of your midwives

Service for brick and mortar

Your temple of empire

Your purchasing power is your right to survive

What else could be expected?

Someone is sending

Something unknown into our lives

Far from the storied fables

The voice of an angel

Sends the strong into a terrored state

She holds the sword of anger

And the face of a stranger

Can you trust hеr to know the way?

Don’t bother setting thе table

Eat in haste now

Mark the lintel and lock the door

Tonight I cry, I cry alone

Weak and huddled, far from home

As the colossus falls into the sea

With the light she held for you and me

Never a time quite like this

The language of lightning

Is never before and never again

And if the heart is harder

The greater the power

All of his chariots and all of his men

Stilled and silent

The ending of violence

Someone turned the TV off

Tonight alone, alone I cry

Dying because I didn’t die

When the colossus fell into the sea

She took the lightning bolt for you and me

How many times she tried before

To lead us where there was no war

Where night could not eclipse the day

How many times we fell away