How They Built Rome

They gnaw away your brain but keep your face surface gold And expect the course to keep its run When they understand how they built Rome Can't come to terms to smile through rain Why can't I let sadness take its place? Cause you need to speak to sadness sometimes Instead of picking up the petals your loved one's made I was a thousand bottles screwed on the shelf Dying to be opened to relieve myself I was nobody's drink Didn't see how I felt I was staring at life in the face itself And how they built Rome And how they How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing? So give, give, give, give, give it the king You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real So give, give, give, give, give it them now And then your heavy head won't fit the crown A worn racehorse's odds are nothing of two to one They'll bleed the fun 'til their God no longer appeals to them Do you wanna front the papers? Do you wanna be famous? And they'll remain nameless when my shortcomings are framed as another working-class-jumped-up failure They'll see a young kid go south Blame the genius of words on the rocks and brown Fingers scrape through my gums so they hear it all Tell stories of me like they've seen it all But not yet How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing? So give, give, give, give, give it the king You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real So give, give, give, give, give it them now And then your heavy head won't fit the crown I never, never, never wanna feel like this again Let these lizards leech off my innocence I never, never, never wanna feel like this again Let these lizards leech off my innocence I never, never, never wanna feel like this again Let these lizards leech off my innocence I never, never, never wanna feel like this again How much comfort can fortune bring if money can't make a dead man sing? So give, give, give, give, give it the king You'll live by greed so you'll never see to feel, where the air is real So give, give, give, give, give it them now And then your heavy head won't fit the crown Now