The Foundations of Decay

Album: single release only (2022)
Charted: 37 102
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  • See the man who stands upon the hill
    He dreams of all the battles won
    But fate had left its scars upon his face
    With all the damage they had done

    And so tired with age, he turns the page
    Let the flesh submit itself to gravity

    Let our bodies lay, mark our hearts with shame
    Let our blood in vain, you find God in pain
    Now, if your convictions were a passing phase
    May your ashes feed the river in the morning rays
    And as the vermin crawls, we lay in the foundations of decay

    He was there the day the towers fell
    And so he wandered down the road
    And we would all build towers of our own
    Only to watch the roots corrode

    But it's much too late, you're in the race
    So we'll press and press 'til you can't take it anymore

    Let our bodies lay, mark our hearts with shame
    Let our blood in vain, you find God in pain
    And if, by his own hand, his spirit flies
    Take his body as a relic to be canonized
    Now, and so he gets to die a saint
    But she will always be a whore

    (You look stressed out)

    Against faith (cage all the animals)
    Against all odds ('cause the message must be pure)
    Against change (you can wander through the ruins)
    We are free (but the poison is the cure)

    You must fix your heart
    And you must build an altar where it swells
    When the storm, it gains and the sky, it rains
    Let it flood, let it flood, let it wash away
    And as you stumble through your last crusade
    Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?
    And as the swarm it calls, we lay in the foundations

    Yes, it comforts me much more
    Yes, it comforts me much more
    To lay in the foundations of decay

    Get up, coward Writer/s: Frank Iero, Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Ray Toro
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Sillywilly from AmericaI like this song very much, makes me want to punch my pillows. I am very Hyperfixated on MCR!
  • Killjoy from Battery CityWoo! New song!
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