Music Video
Upcoming Concerts for The Ephemeral
Credits
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Noah Shephard
Songwriter
Nate Dobbins
Songwriter
Kieran Lynch
Songwriter
Darin Senyk
Songwriter
Nick Fraga
Songwriter
Lyrics
Glaring down from the dead fig tree
Feeding on the rot
They stare back with militant eyes through a grayscale spectrum
They say, "Ain't that neighbor no friend of mine"
We've reached bottom only to find
Corrosion burning up the tree
Don't wanna see past their name
Hunting, writhing
Snort your reflection
Get high off your horses
Denying
Those deciding
You're not hiding anymore
We dance, defiant, despite this place
We dance, so vibrant, transcend your gaze
But your hand moves with just mine
And your scars were traced with the same lines
Still the difference seems so clear
You are there and I am here
This god-fearing reflex -
Smites them down to the pavement
And in their image, you catch a piece of yourself that you have always hated
With torches in their palms lit, the mob surrounds, transfixed on their crucifixion
Kinda hard to extend a hand when it's nailed to a cell phone
Bystanders gather round to see them stoned and feast on their limbs
Hung, drawn, and quartered in the street
Higher chimp, now give me a glimpse
Through this one-way transphobic mirror staring back at yourself
A primal monolith of dominance,
Black, reflecting back at the mass
And how do they know who you are?
Part of your "pretentious high-goddamn-art?"
Making sure you don't walk alone
Cuz they'll club you down with a femur bone like a fucking ape
Attack a beauty they do not excuse in their tribe
Can you feel their hand of God drag you out of that bathroom?
Can you prove to them your existence is real?
Philosophize and actualize your flesh -
Can you prove to them that you can feel?
The skeptic in them is never quenched
And when you step on this turf
You put your wounds in their hands and they clench
Your blood pours out
Your blood pours out
Your blood pours out
Into the cupped palm of their God
He drinks from you
He drinks of you
Goliath will fall
Goliath will fall far from this tree
Do you need what I am not?
Would you believe in all I am?
Writer(s): Nick Fraga
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