Taken for a Bath - Emery

And I wanted to see it

The crease and the curve of the skin

Four words got me in

Again and again again

But my friend

It was the light just behind us

I knew we never could keep up

The beds we make, the steps we take

Our graves we fill everyday

Roof top views of city buildings gathered

Where the sun sets on them steals the eye

Touch the streets with feet in hurried measure

Our discretion means we never lie

We never have to lie

We never have to lie

You stole my eyes, so you I will take

You are the test of our grace

Threads become lines, we cross till they break

And they break from the seams to the bodies of men

(WE WILL LIE WE WILL TAKE

WITHERED AND CRUSHED THE FIRE AND THE FATE

YOU WILL DIE FOR OUR SAKE

WE WILL SEE THE WORLD IN THE BLOOD)

The illusion was ours

It was joy, it was rapture

I would have settled for capture

But a lost life found my bed

And all the wages of another

And the secret is no longer mine

Warm the body like so many others

Your discretion means we never lie

We never have to lie

We never have to lie

You stole my eyes, so you I will take

You are the test of our grace

Threads become lines, we cross till they break

And they break from the seams to the bodies of men

(WE WILL LIE WE WILL TAKE

WITHERED AND CRUSHED THE FIRE AND THE FATE

YOU WILL DIE FOR OUR SAKE

WE WILL SEE THE WORLD IN THE BLOOD)

TIME SAYS WE ARE MEANT TO SUFFER

SLINK BACK TO THE RETCH!

I never wanted them to wither or be crushed by the weight

(I called him home)

The choice was all his own

How could I have known

The simple answers that hold people to the fire and their fate

(I called him home)

Wait and see for yourself

It’s in the blood

It’s in the blood

The whole world is in the blood

I’d rather tell you how I ruled the world and never stopped

But this heart mine is shaking like a spinning top

And as it slows all my sins have caught the last of me

That reflection in the water tells a story true

But it’s the last thing you want staring back at you

And wrinkled hands weak from plunder barely stir this away

There were years where our faces stayed in front us

There were moments we forgot what this really was

But the death of a memory

Is the death we carry

We’re desperate

And dead set

We carry reasons in our chests

We reset and forget

The songs we sing are for the blessed

Don’t take this personally, your quiet exit stole the show

The regrets are all said

Kings and kingdoms come and go