Lyrics On Both Eyes - Hostage Calm

On Both Eyes

And when the floor gave out, we made our way to the ground
And laid for hours
In the ashen dirt, we knew we didn’t have much
But it was ours
Between loneliness and some broken love
I’d choose none of the above
They say we wanted it a little too much…
Oh, it’s a distant land:
The one where we live
But it slipped from our hands
The grass overgrown, the broken family home
See the place where we grew up
Turned a circus for gamblers and gawkers and theives
When the word got around, we spilled out on the streets
As the banks decorate every house in defeat
All set to expire
A fighter past his prime
My daddy said
No one likes a whiner
But I got shiners on both eyes
Boy, is there a job for you?
And if there was
Would you even want to?
‘Cause when the floor gave out, we made our way to the ground
And laid for hours
Cut-up and hurt, you held me firm
The world moved on without us
I know my honesty’s a little too much
But there’s no one fighting for us
Is there something here that you can still love?
Still my memory stays and replays
The first time that we held
Or was it our world at all?
Young and racing towards nothing
Was it our world at all?
Burning headlong with the blinders on
Sold all my stock of the American dream
More than someone to fuck
Before we all fall asleep
I see a broken world coming for us
And Maria
It’s you and me
Fighting for love
If we can believe it’s enough
We’ll take the bombs from the great above