Cowards - Justin Rutledge

Hi! Hey! Hi! Okay! I guess you're okay You go through my head Now and then (Hi! Hey! Hi! Okay!) We watch what we say, We play hard to get We pretend (Hi! Hey! Hi! Okay!) I don't what's happened to me But it won't disappear I'll keep changing, Saying things I think you want to hear I'm struggling to hold on to something close to you Now I'm coming up short I choose to make the most of you Never mind the power Never mind the games You and me we're cowards Never mind to share 'Cause I'll be waiting for you At the burning gates Baby, I adore you But I'm afraid to say I bite, and you scratch We tend to relax Perfect match (Hi! Hey! Hi! Okay!) We're both self destruct We fight and we fuck We make love (Hi! Hey! Hi! Okay!) I'm struggling to hold on to something close to you Now I'm coming up short I choose to make the most of you Never mind the power Never mind the games You and me, we're cowards Never mind to share 'Cause I'll be waiting for you At the burning gates Baby, I adore you But I'm afraid to say We don't have to be the model couple We could just be modeled up I won't give it up! White flag on the night stand White girl for the road Baby, we were made to go surround each other Baby, I don't know I don't care I'm just scared Never mind the power Never mind the games You and me, we're cowards Never mind to share 'Cause I'll be waiting for you At the burning gates Baby, I adore you But I'm afraid to say

Time has taught us That they're sending out their sons To take away our guns and our daughters We are all cowards now Rivers rising Darkness fell upon People blotting out the sun Disguising how We are all cowards now At least the Emperor Nero had an ear for music But that's history Caligula said "God's speed, my steed" But that's his story They're coming for our Peacemakers Our Winchesters and Colts The rattle of our Gatling Guns Our best cowboy revolts and threats and insults We are all cowards now The emptiness of arms The openness of thighs The pornography of bullets The promises and prizes can't disguise We are all cowards now They're draping stones with colours And a roll of stolen names Except those we never cared about And those we need to blame We'll extinguish that flame, just the same We're all cowards now Arms are empty The pornography of plenty Count commands from one to ten Number sins from ten to twenty There's an illusion we believe in There is honour in their need Pretty confetti, chemical debt And a necessity to bleed My fears too fleet to scupper My prayers too thin to scream On my lover's back a zipper On her limb a straightened seam So, close the windows tightly Lower lamps and shades On the screen, silent rehearsals For tomorrow's parades For tomorrow's parades For tomorrow's parades We are all cowards now

Beautiful day Is blowin away Do you see a letter within the blue Barely a shell Bury it well Dig it up when the winter's through North wind, North wind, North wind on the rise You look at the lake You watch the waves break Do you think you see her in the storm With the air and the sand Your sandals in her hand Nothing but a Whip-poor-will's wind to keep her warm North wind, North wind, North wind on the rise North wind, North wind on the rise, On the rise, on the rise A beautiful day Is blowin away There's nothing to tell us within the blue So you think of a shell And the way it felt You can see a howling in my view North wind, North wind, North wind on the rise North wind, North wind on the rise, On the rise, on the rise