The Right to Bear Claws

from Hierarchy EP by Promise Me Empires

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How does it feel?
To ask the same questions,
and recieve nothing.
Quit pondering!
You are clouded,
by this meaningless thought.
Towering them all,
wasn't enough.
You've spent your whole life,
building it higher. (x2)
Only to realize,
what you've become.
A withering old man,
grown scared of,
the highest of mountains; the greenest of trees.
Only to realize,
what you've missed.

It seems it's become,
a race for death.
Exhausting lies will fulfill the tongue,
of a coward, a coward.

What makes you so obligated?
So entitled, to your crown.
Show me your palace,
it is in ashes;
I've brought liberty to the fearful.

Oh
This is your final test,
will you escape this hell?

Watch every cloud pass.
Not to revere the brush of wind against your skin,
but only the clouds in the sky.
For they know where they have been;
a path less traveled.

You are not your possessions,
leave this time.
Take the wheel,
explore the corresponding side.
This is not you,
this is not you. (x2)
Blinded by content it seems.
Drop all your guns,
their drives are tangent.
Drop all your guns,
their drives are tangent.

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from Hierarchy EP, released October 31, 2013

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Promise Me Empires Concord, New Hampshire

"Our lives are collapsing, but our conviction remains."

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