Album: Isn't It Now? (2023)
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  • Lightning crested, read your letter
    Looked through pinholes to streets unguarded
    Panicked, seeking solitude
    Serpents circle in the fountain

    Thoughts of thee decaying fast
    I awake to healthy roses
    Violence brings innocent tombs
    Liars think you're in our soil

    Douse the sheets, they'll turn to ash
    This whole thing will also pass
    Danger's laying with the lambs
    Draw the signs, we'll build the boats and wash away

    Just grab something, take hold
    The only thing to hold
    Stay grounded like the spruce
    Oh, a little change
    Just grab something, take hold
    The only thing you know
    Stay grounded like the spruce

    One day friend, we'll meet again
    And hopefully then the earth is quiet
    I'll lay down with you in bed
    Loneliness is left for letters

    Voices yelling, love is bruised
    No one praising bits of silence
    Watch as gems they're holding fall
    Dive to catch, the sluice was pulled
    It broke that day

    Just grab something, take hold
    The only thing to hold
    Stay grounded like the spruce
    Oh, a little change
    Just grab something, take hold
    The only thing you know
    Stay grounded like the spruce

    Crawling from the serpent in the water
    The mirror, the what have we become
    Crawling from the serpent in the water
    The mirror, the what have we become
    Crawling from the serpent in the water
    The mirror, the what have we become
    Crawling from the serpent in the water
    The mirror, the what have we become

    Crawling from the serpent in the water
    The mirror, the what have we become
    Crawling from the serpent in the water
    The mirror, the what have we become
    Crawling from the serpent in the water
    The mirror, the what have we become
    Crawling from the serpent in the water
    The mirror, the what have we become

    Once was a good way
    Good way was sometimes paved right
    Handled with care
    We were coming of age
    The anything will do
    Twist them off and pass them 'round
    Where did it change? Coming of age

    We once got a free line
    Opportunity radicals
    You're on top of your game
    When you're coming of age
    And praise for the underdog
    That was you with the good dog
    What was its name?
    Coming of age

    Just a frightened mother
    Looking for her daughter
    Justice, justice wanders
    Looking for some shelter

    Once on a good day
    I had a room and you knew it well
    Our games were all grace
    We were coming of age
    And we were the good news
    Now I'm all out but how about you?
    Where do we stand?
    Coming of age

    Just a frightened mother
    Looking for her daughter
    Justice, justice wanders
    Looking for some shelter

    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now

    Just a frightened mother
    Looking for her daughter
    Justice, justice wanders
    Looking for some shelter

    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no, not now
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Oh no
    Isn't it now? Defeat
    Isn't it Writer/s: Brian Weitz, Dave Portner, Josh Dibb, Noah Lennox
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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