The Stage

Album: The Stage (2016)
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  • So I arrived, naked and cold
    A welcomed change from the abeyance of a ghost town catacomb
    No need for counsel I appreciate the time, I'm not alone
    (Well, it's not bad as I thought it was gonna be)

    There were days these child eyes
    Would overlook the ugliness and fantasize
    I found my heart for the first time and I awakened in me
    I left myself to navigate, and, oh, I felt control, oh

    Who is the crowd that peers through the cage
    As we perform here upon the stage?
    Here we go

    As the boy became a man
    In came a calm sophistication I can hardly understand
    So lost in ego, didn't notice when the time had slipped away
    (This is a house of learning indoctrinating ? to do whatever the fuck)

    Jesus Christ was born to die
    Leave it to man to levitate his own to idolize
    We're simply sociopaths with no communication, baby
    I see your angle but we differ from our points of view

    O2, I wanna hear you sing it to me

    (Who is the crowd that peers through the cage)
    (As we perform here) upon the stage?
    Tell me a lie in a beautiful way
    I believe in answers just not today
    No, no, no, no, no, no, no

    Oh, London how're you doing this fine evening?
    This is the second show, there ain't gonna be no fuckin' hangover tonight
    You ready to have some fun with us?
    Then I wanna see those lighters and cellphones in the air
    For a little bit of calm before the storm tonight

    I love this fuckin' city, look around
    You look beautiful, London

    Hope my wheels don't abandon me now
    Seeing that I'm out here alone
    I'm running out of fight
    And the wind speaks a comforting voice
    Guiding me to her arms
    Mother, I'm alright

    It took the birth of sin to snake-rattle the mind
    Before a blow to the head by the gavel of time
    To wake up
    Won't you wake up?
    When did the walking apes decide that nuclear war
    Was the only solution to keeping the score?
    Just wake up
    Can't you wake up?

    (You do know this is just a simulation, don't you?)

    Who is the crowd that peers through the cage
    As we perform here upon the stage?
    Tell me a lie in a beautiful way
    I believe in answers, just not today, oh Writer/s: BRIAN HANER, BROOKS WACKERMAN, JONATHAN SEWARD, MATTHEW SANDERS, ZACHARY BAKER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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