First Father

[Verse 1: Garrett Russell]

Do you remember when I said

You'd never feel the sting of death? [01]

But now I’m waiting where you left

Beside that snow-kissed clearing [02]

I pressed a seed through that frozen fleece

The earth embraced you in the ground

No invention of my mind

Will ever compose a melody so profound

I’m a priest afraid to pray [03]

Terrified at what the silence couldn't say

Tongue tethered to the skeptic beating in my chest

[Pre-Chorus: Garrett Russell]

We're no longer quite ourselves

Nor reflections of someone else

Lover, do you feel that tension

As we drift between silence and eternity?

[Chorus: Garrett Russell]

Death is the road, road to awe [04]

I stood atop the world

Its asymmetry laid bare in front of me:

Thanatophobic societies taking life to mourn their tragedies

[Verse 2: Garrett Russell]

I feared this world would never change

But you steady your resolve anyway

Let's set the pen against the sword [05]

How orphans long for peace before they learn to love the war

Perhaps it's our language [06]

Perhaps we are incomplete

Words like shadows to what we see

Faint flickerings across the cavern in our minds [07]

[Bridge: Thomas Freckleton]

Candles in the dark [08]

Defiant to the night

[Bridge: Garrett Russell]

"You pulled me through time" [09]

Through the edgeless night [10]

I learned to love as you learned to die

I'll begin to feel again and finish the chapter you couldn’t write

[Outro: Thomas Freckleton & Garrett Russell]

Candles in the dark

Defiant to the night, defiant to the shadow

You pull me through time, through the edgeless night

I learned to love as you learned to die [11]