Violins - Trans lyrics

Can you feel the flame? Can the body bear the thought for long? Can you stand the weight? And just stand around and right the wrong? I went walking in the aimless night A tune upon my tongue I had nothing to protect me The air in all directions As the years just dropped away Not a thing to recommend me Can you fire the gun? Can you just defend the right to fire? Will you love again? And extinguish every last desire? We are agents and provocateurs Our funding isn't clear Such sharp and shameless dressers And the walls around the empire Still are plastered with the bodies Of prominent transgressors Confining by design Our liberators lay the lines While the tenure track confessors Sing the songs The world cannot keep up