World War I by The Cardboard City Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Are you naked on a beach
Just a little out of reach
Holding forth with minor gods
In antiquated speech
Are you wading in the waters
Of a planet of a star
That is folding up the space
Around the moment where you are
In the underwood you lay
And let your lover, the sea
Caress you through the night
And you wrote it back to me
What a kindness
[Verse 2]
Are you wrapped up in your bed
Regretting what you said
Trying to remember what you said
Getting lost inside your head
The lake is cold and silent
There are predators among the trees
Here’s a secret you can pocket
Here’s a hand that you can seize
It embarrasses my friends
And turns the conversation sour
It’s a loss without an object
It’s a crushing icy shower
Of unkindness
[Chorus]
What was is in a perfect state of impermanence
What has become that which only exists in its own absence
Concluding never as a poise that speaks of motion like a symbol
Inscribed along the inner shell of someone’s dessicated heart
[Verse 3]
There’s a place beneath the ground
Where you can bury what you feel
You can congregate with demons
You can satirize the real
Have you got my new address
It’s an argument ago
You can piece it out of figures
Rendered moot by what you know
In the shade of final days
As you give up what you own
May I make a minor reference
To the kindness you have shown
To my blindness
[Chorus]
What was is in a perfect state of impermanence
What has become that which only exists in its own absence
Concluding never as a poise that speaks of motion like a symbol
Inscribed along the inner shell of someone’s dessicated heart
Are you naked on a beach
Just a little out of reach
Holding forth with minor gods
In antiquated speech
Are you wading in the waters
Of a planet of a star
That is folding up the space
Around the moment where you are
In the underwood you lay
And let your lover, the sea
Caress you through the night
And you wrote it back to me
What a kindness
[Verse 2]
Are you wrapped up in your bed
Regretting what you said
Trying to remember what you said
Getting lost inside your head
The lake is cold and silent
There are predators among the trees
Here’s a secret you can pocket
Here’s a hand that you can seize
It embarrasses my friends
And turns the conversation sour
It’s a loss without an object
It’s a crushing icy shower
Of unkindness
[Chorus]
What was is in a perfect state of impermanence
What has become that which only exists in its own absence
Concluding never as a poise that speaks of motion like a symbol
Inscribed along the inner shell of someone’s dessicated heart
[Verse 3]
There’s a place beneath the ground
Where you can bury what you feel
You can congregate with demons
You can satirize the real
Have you got my new address
It’s an argument ago
You can piece it out of figures
Rendered moot by what you know
In the shade of final days
As you give up what you own
May I make a minor reference
To the kindness you have shown
To my blindness
[Chorus]
What was is in a perfect state of impermanence
What has become that which only exists in its own absence
Concluding never as a poise that speaks of motion like a symbol
Inscribed along the inner shell of someone’s dessicated heart