Sands dripping down from our feet
right beneath the pier’s edge where we were first to meet
and I caught you once but you let me down twice
I don’t know how

And there’s a place we would all go to sing
we’d gather round the old town church to hear those bells ring
I’ll never forget those days
when I was worthy of your love

I promise I won’t make a sound
cos I figure you no longer want me around
and I know that the days will pass and soon we’ll be rid of these things
so let soft words be spoken and join in these winter hymns

Crows flying out with old wings
bated breath with lungs that barely have the strength to sing
and I fought you once but you let me win twice
I don’t know why

And there’s a chapter that I keep on trying to read
But the pages stick and crumble where your fingers used to be
I’ll never forget your hands
cos they were always pushing me

I promise I won’t make a sound
cos I figure you no longer want me around
and I know that the days will pass and soon we’ll be rid of these things
so let brave words be spoken and join in these winter hymns

Just let us grow
your patience was lost in the sea
just don’t go
and all this darkness will come
my heart is in stormy weather
and the pain is all I have for now
and I’m homebound

Four whole years is a long way down,
and we sleep this off in the lost and found.
I guess we had no idea there would be no sound,
when the guns went off and we hit the ground.

Sing it loud.
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh.
They were long days, they were long days.
Sing it loud.
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh.
They were long days with the ghost you left me.

We're haunted by what we've seen,
another force to cause emergency.
Our paper hearts are folding,
and torn apart as we hold them.
What are we doing this for
What are we doing this for
What are we doing this for
We're born together, we'll die together.
We're haunted by what we've seen,
but we were born together, die together.

Fourteen years since I left this town,
how can you love me here when I'm not around
I guess that we've seen this all through the devil's eyes,
when the darkness falls and the vultures rise.

Sing it loud.
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh.
They were long days, they were long days.
Sing it loud.
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh.
They were long days with the ghost you left me.

We're haunted by what we've seen,
another force to cause emergency.
Our paper hearts are folding,
and torn apart as we hold them.
What are we doing this for
What are we doing this for
What are we doing this for
We're born together, we'll die together
We're haunted by what we've seen,
but we were born together, die together.

Something changed in us,
in the eyes of sinners.
We were forged in the fires that we had within us.
Something changed in us,
in the eyes of sinners.
We were forged in the fires that we had within us.

We're haunted by what we've seen,
another force to cause emergency.
Our paper hearts are folding,
and torn apart as we hold them.
What are we doing this for
What are we doing this for
What are we doing this for
We're born together, we'll die together
What are we doing this for
What are we doing this for
What are we doing this for
We're born together, we'll die together

We were born together, die together
We were born together, we'll die together
We were born together, we'll die together
We were born together, we'll die together