The Earth Could Only Weep - Tanuki, Nate MacKinnon

If the island could gather the stones that cross its shores

We will believe

When the ocean begins to heave

To throw off the skin we wore

Call on familiar ones

To fill the holes that haunt your riddled mind

Don’t let the world decay

To hold with your tongue and the fortune you’ll find

DIVE

Through the sea we surrendered

JUST LEAVE BEHIND

All of the helpless in need

The earth will swallow the blighted whole

The coding of discourse

Grabbing at words like a silent sore

It’s the medicine for this cancerous core

Take the parts of this that spell out their defeat

A message forgotten and promises broke

A flood we’ve forgiven

And the fire it woke

DIVE

Through the sea we surrendered

JUST LEAVE BEHIND

All of the helpless in need

The earth will swallow the blighted whole

RUN

From the sands as they swell

LIKE EVERYONE

We’re not any better than them

Our bodies return to the ground

The same as the crown

The heavens have closed

And the earth could only weep

THEY SAY THAT WE SOLD

OUR SORRY STATE NOT WORTH IT’S WEIGHT IN GOLD

WITH MURDEROUS BLOWS

THEY TORE OUT THE FEAR

BATHED IN THE BLOOD THAT FLOWS

WE WON’T KNOW LOVE

We won’t know love

NO WE WON’T KNOW LOVE

We won’t know love

TILL THE WORLD IS DEAD AND GONE

OR SO THEY SAY

SO THEY SAY

SO THEY