Garrett Russell - Firstwake lyrics

[Verse 1] You'd be choking on your flame My Son without a name Made king of all the wastes And forever will swallow us alive We'll be abstracted from time We can let the tides wash over This is the epilogue to the introduction (Lost in the sound) 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] Father, forgive them for they know not what they do Mother, receive me because I'm coming home to you Does this cup run dry? [Verse 2] 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] 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 to cup to quench parched tongues But I became drunk And lust lynched my lungs [Chorus] Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do Mother, receive me, because I'm coming home to you Does this cup run dry? [Outro Line] For they know not what they do