The Violence

Album: Wolves (2017)
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  • Dancing on the crumbling precipice
    The rocks are coming loose just at the edge
    Are we laughing? Are we crying?
    Are we drowning? Are we dead?
    Or is it all a dream?

    The bombs are getting closer everyday
    "That can never happen here" we used to say
    Have these wars come to our doorstep?
    Has this moment finally come?
    Or is it all a dream?

    Are we not good enough?
    Are we not brave enough?
    Is the violence in our nature
    Just the image of our maker?
    Are we not good enough?
    Are we not brave enough?
    To become something greater
    Than the violence in our nature?
    Are we not good, good enough
    Or is it all a dream?

    To a predetermined fate are we condemned
    Or maybe we're a book without an end
    We're not stories, we're not actors
    We're awake and in control
    And this is not a dream

    So can we break this mold
    And set in motion something new?
    Forgetting what we know
    An evolution overdue
    Fight the current
    Pull the ripcord
    Get away

    Are we not good enough?
    Are we not brave enough?
    Is the violence in our nature
    Just the image of our maker?
    Are we not good enough?
    Are we not brave enough?
    To become something greater
    Than the violence in our nature?
    Are we not good, good enough?
    Oh oh oh

    Well trodden paths are all we take
    We need a storm, let's pray for rain now
    To wash these roads away
    Let's get off track and wander far
    Same roads lead to same destinations
    Follow nothing but your heart
    We're talking in our sleep
    And sleeping through our lives
    We dream of the places where we never die
    We step from our shadows and into the light

    Are we not good enough?
    Are we not brave enough?
    Is the violence in our nature
    Just the image of our maker?
    Are we not good enough?
    Are we not brave enough?
    To become something greater
    Than the violence in our nature?
    Are we not good enough?
    Are we not brave enough?
    Are we not good, good enough?
    Or was it all a dream? Writer/s: Brandon Barnes, Joe Principe, Timothy Mcilrath, Zach Blair
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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