Revelations lyrics

My city sleeps by the side of a freeway, the city scraps
And winter time she wore a yellow coat
Now there's nothin' on her back
If a building falls you wouldn't care to notice unless you were in it
Then no one cares about climbin' stairs, nothin' at the top no more

Outside trippin' in the broken city
Outside trippin' in the broken city, I watch a building crack

When I was 18 I didn't know pain when the sun was high
Burnt face, shadow's erased and I knew I'd be alright
Left that behind me (uh-huh)
Somethin' blinded me (uh-huh
That reminded me (uh-huh)
Of a better space and time miles away

The Jewel of the Summertime
Jewel of the Summertime
Jewel of the Summertime
Jewel of the Summertime
Jewel of the Summertime
Jewel of the Summertime

Thought I was different
But it seems I'm just the same
As again I put my hand over the flame
I thought I was smarter
As I flew into the sun
But it turned out the way it does with everyone

Oh!
Oh!
I don't fly around your fire any more
I don't fly around your fire any more
Burned and fallen down so many times before
I don't fly around your fire any more

I loved the heat

Just like a rescue of a stray dog in the rain
I was hungry when you found me
And you could tell by my tail and my rib cage
What was once around me

I've been chased by a rain cloud
I was lost and nearly drowned and kicked around
But now I'm found and I won't run away

Bless your heart you gave me a home and a new start
And I will leave you never

Well they don't hate you, you know they love you
But they're gonna come kill you
They don't mean you any harm
It's just what they do
Could be your mother
Could be your father
Or your best friend in the world

But just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same
(One and the same)
Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same
(One and the same)
Yeah, yeah, yeah

The original fire has died and gone, but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone, but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone, but the riot inside moves on
The original fire has died and gone, but the riot inside moves on

With a pen in one hand, taking us and burned on kerosine
Headed for a fire would find us something to believe

You know what to do, you know what I did
Since you know everything just clue me in
I am such a wreck, I am such a mess
I know what I know, why don't you fill in the rest

I will bring you down, I will make it bad
While you're feelin' proud, why don't you help me

Such a shame that I wouldn't know by now
Your revelations
Cut me in I don't want to live without
Your revelations

Well it's late in the hour and a few more grains of sand will fall
On the colorful flowers grown upon the dust and moss
Now I feel the worst is near
I hold them close and count their years
And pray a ray of light appears
To shine down on us here

Breakdown in the shape of things to come
But I move along like a soldier
And I say now when all is said and done

Somedays, somedays, somedays just ain't so easy

Wake up, look around just before you're feet hit the ground
Where they make the oil and street, is where you stand and where you sleep
Black and whites along the lights, plain clothes and Miranda Rights
At the right place but in the wrong life, somedays just ain't so easy

Somedays, somedays, somedays (somedays) just ain't so easy

In the here and now I wait
Among the young and the old
Between the moon and the ground I play
With my children in my home
This is for the daughters and sons
Of forgotten ones
Learning how to stand
This is for the innocent unknowns
Buried in the sand

Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun
And you're weary
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun

I walked the streets without regret, oh oh oh
I stood alone and watched myself fall apart
Answered the voices in my head, oh oh oh
Slipped through the chainlink of a broken heart

And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
And stroke your feathers till we fall, back down again

Bought everything that sounded good, oh oh oh

You can look a hurricane right in the eye
Twelve hundred people that are left to die
Follow the leaders, were it an eye
For an eye you'd all be blind
Death or murder, this I'm sure
In this uncertain time

So come pull a sheet over my eyes
So I can sleep tonight
Despite what I've seen today
I find you guilty of a crime
Of sleeping at a time
When you should have been wide awake