Spirit Night - Sylvia (World Of Hate) lyrics

We rode bikes past that house on the day that she died And there wasn't a sound or a chill in the air We only later heard news of what had happened inside When her body gave out at the foot of the stairs If there was something underground Just screaming to be let out We didn't notice it until It left its tracks through our town And in the bloody aftermath We stood looking around And wondering where we had been Looking before the day when Somebody could have saved you if you had only spoken out And no, I could never blame you-- I only wish you had now When they breathed into your body, it was already too late And you'd only just had that one look at a world of hate We threw rocks at that house for the next fifty years And no figure appeared in the attic window We skipped cla** and we drank stolen bottles of beer In the back of your car on the way to the show And we grew up and we moved out Every year in small ways Past the Jesus billboards and Beyond the forgotten graves Of Sylvia and all the rest I don't remember their names But I'm afraid that underground Their flesh decayed the same way Somebody could have saved you if you had only spoken out And no, I could never blame you-- I only wish you had now When they breathed into your body, it was already too late And you'd only just had that one look at a world of hate And when it happens, it is never quite clear How this could happen, but it does every year I'll sleep through the same life That was taken from you Though it doesn't seem right But what more could I do? Somebody could have saved you if you had only spoken out And no, I could never blame you-- I'm just thinking out loud When they breathed into your body, it was already too late And you'd only just had that one look at a world of hate