From Here I Can See the Shore Lyrics

what good is a voice if you can't speak
for yourself.
swallow your tongue
and choke on
the words you once
said.
this is a start
to a dying, deaf anthem.
let the stain of minds
tear apart your heart
and if I said farewell,
I'd sink this ship.

what good is a voice if you can't speak
for yourself.
swallow your tongue
and choke on
the words you once
said.

by gallows we'll be hung,
let's shun this rope,
red dress, black heels, a warm gun.
so sick she came
choking on the sound
of your laugh
it nearly killed her
but it did take her mind.
what good is a voice if you can't speak
for yourself.
swallow your tongue
and choke on
the words you once
said.
a flag was burned,
black white and ash,
the colors of my grievance
my empty lungs. and then the rain
came and then it came.

a figure in the rain
spoke of a song,
speaking an unknown tongue,
but I could hear.
a beating heart
and open mind
to take them away.

a beating heart
and open mind
to take them away.