Monuments (feat. Lucy Wilson)

Hark the monolith See the temperature rising Feel, the pressure is mounting An abacus counting in hundreds And thousands, falling Heed the criminal Leaving the tenement building See the teeth-marks of time Map the risk. Mark the lines On the landscape, there's an army forming And it feels like forever 'til we Find an answer And it feels like the question burns our lips Reap the benefits Seems like I read it in The Age Buildings are burning like paper So do me a favour and forget me Forget my story And it moves so effortlessly Like a dancer I can see smoke billowing already It's like when you were a spy And you said "Meet me in the cross-hairs On the last day of July I'm leaving" You said "Don't look to your right" As I was standing at the station Too drunk to take to the sky With that look in your eye You said "No ceremony please" You're like an orchestra of bees And it's like I read it in The Age Hark the monument Whereby I wait for you for days Tourists are capturing pictures While bums quote from scripture And my ticket goes one way baby It's like I read it in The Age It's like I read it in The Age Read it It's like when you were a spy And I said "Meet me in the cross-hairs On the last day of July Fuck it, I'm leaving" You said "Don't look to your right" And I was standing at the station Too drunk to take to the sky With that look in your eye You said "No ceremony please" You're like an orchestra of bees And it's like I read it in The Age The wolves are at the door There's cameras in the ceiling and the floor It's not safe anymore I've turned the whole thing over The new world calls my name I hate it when you look at me that way