LUKE ROUNTREE

Lyrics

Walk me upstream before I float back down
Deliver a tremor to my feet before I can hear a sound
Give me a rock give me a stone anything to hold on
Before I lie in the sand give me miles of ocean
Give me a seed before I taste the fruit tree
I will lie naked before they get my picture on the red carpet
Leave me homeless leave me in debt
Before fortunes I’ll get a hundred nights alone
Forsake the flesh and my bone
Do you want to open your eyes?
What do you want?
Do you want to know how to stay alive?
What do you want?
Do you want to step into the light?
Do you think the scale balances right?
I come from the city nights where kings and queens wait in line
I am down on my own shield
Before I choke on parley’s rehearsed line
Tear the treaty burn the white flag
My only crime is that I’m alive
Give me my death give me the grave before I live to be dead
Please let this war return before the peace is served
Do you want to open your eyes?
What do you want?
Do you want to know how to stay alive?
What do you want?
Do you want to step into the light?
Do you think the scale balances right?
I come from the city nights where kings and queens wait in line