On Both Eyes - Hostage Calm

And when the floor gave out, we made our way to the ground

And laid for hours

In the ashen dirt, we knew we didn’t have much

But it was ours

Between loneliness and some broken love

I’d choose none of the above

They say we wanted it a little too much…

Oh, it’s a distant land:

The one where we live

But it slipped from our hands

The grass overgrown, the broken family home

See the place where we grew up

Turned a circus for gamblers and gawkers and theives

When the word got around, we spilled out on the streets

As the banks decorate every house in defeat

All set to expire

A fighter past his prime

My daddy said

No one likes a whiner

But I got shiners on both eyes

Boy, is there a job for you?

And if there was

Would you even want to?

‘Cause when the floor gave out, we made our way to the ground

And laid for hours

Cut-up and hurt, you held me firm

The world moved on without us

I know my honesty’s a little too much

But there’s no one fighting for us

Is there something here that you can still love?

Still my memory stays and replays

The first time that we held

Or was it our world at all?

Young and racing towards nothing

Was it our world at all?

Burning headlong with the blinders on

Sold all my stock of the American dream

More than someone to fuck

Before we all fall asleep

I see a broken world coming for us

And Maria

It’s you and me

Fighting for love

If we can believe it’s enough

We’ll take the bombs from the great above