Firstwake

[Verse 1: Garrett Russell]

You'd be choking on your flame, my Son without a name

Made king [1] of all the wastes

And forever will swallow us alive, we'll be abstracted from time

We can let the tides wash over

[Pre-Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton]

This is the epilogue to the introduction (Lost in the sound) [2]

Hold tight to all your systematic theories

That help you to sleep at night

But remember that there could be no sufficient certitudes in hell

[Chorus: Garrett Russell]

Father, forgive them

For they know not what they do [3]

Mother, receive me [4]

'Cause I'm coming home to you, does this cup run dry? [5]

[Verse 2: Thomas Freckleton & Garrett Russell]

Look at what we've done again, we wage war in the name of love

Using gold to fill the holes in your hands

Caught in the paradox

Juxtaposed between bifurcated black and white

And my propensity to fail you

Caught in the cyclical narrative of violence

That invokes your name to justify genocide

They'll take everything

[Bridge: Joel Quartuccio]

We traded water for salt

Something whole for something equally as broken as us

Now dying of thirst, we'll write this out in blood

And shut you in a stone-cold time where the air rots out, leaving us alone

We chose to be alone

I was given this cup to quench parched tongues

But I became drunk and lust lynched my lungs

[Chorus: Garrett Russell]

Father, forgive them

For they know not what they do [3]

Mother, receive me [4]

'Cause I'm coming home to you, does this cup run dry? [5]

[Outro: Garrett Russell]

For they know not what they do [3]