Palms Read

[Intro]

As often as always

Evolution comes crawling from the sea

Alive with the urgency

Like suicide, like suicide

[Verse 1]

Convinced the grass is greener

On dry earth;

[Verse 2]

The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough

Muffled murmur sneaking through the lecture halls

They crawl across the island

Sound of waves in muddied water

Sprouting legs as loud as gallop,...

[Chorus]

All the young people took a leap of no faith

In a riverbed that drowns about as much as it saves

[Breakdown]

...Throwing down on the ground against the cries of gravity

[Verse 3]

Belly-up, half buried in the sand

Extend a hand to the smallness of death

Understand that only dying is this colossal

Creation shedding skin to find the perfect equilibrium like fossils

[Chorus]

All the young people took a leap of no faith...

All the young cowards acting out...

All the young cowards acting out for the brave

Forever hurled into the water of their indifferent graves

For a million years raise your glass

We will never answer where we came from...

For a million years raise your glass in a cheers

We will never answer where we came from, only how we got...

[Post-Chorus]

For a million years raise your glass

We will never answer where we came from...

For a million years raise your glass

...only how we got here

[Outro]

(Two minutes, and then the lads are in for a surprise)