Superbia; Fides

from Dead Language EP by The Thief and His Mother

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have pride, I have faith, I have all of these things that I've left to replace. Does all we do have an existential purpose or are we all just clawing in our books? I've seen my friends grow from seeds into blossoms and the realization: life is heavier than it looks. Take your pictures down, they do little more than show your face in different angles. For vanity, for attention. I swear, they won't build monuments in honor of your egos. Great men before us have had such great hope with the cables and wires that grow from our hands. They've fed us lies about all of our intelligence and how high and how tall we think we stand. The past is just your two cents that you offer to my eyes and the things that I think I see are the things that let me know I'm alive. I have pride, I have faith, I have all of these things that I've left to replace. You borrow quotes from the throats of unadulterated men, then rip out the price tag and repackage what is left. Well, we're not worthy of the slime that you hurl, because all that wordy pantomime is all you've got in the world. We feed our lips with kisses, nicotine, and the bitter bottles but nothing quite satisfies like the business models and we'll kick the chair with flailing looks of disappointment, but twist your grip around my neck to make this life less poignant. I have pride, I have faith, I have all of these things that I've left to replace. The past is just your two cents that you offer to my eyes and the things that I think I see are the things that let me know I'm alive.

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from Dead Language EP, released June 9, 2013

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