True Monument
๐ต 748 characters
โฑ๏ธ 4:59 duration
๐ ID: 851844
๐ Lyrics
I gave up looking for easy answers
Contemplating words that left such scars
Composed with the cruelty of kindness
Her arms outstretched with lips ajar
I'd have her arrested
But she has no hands and I can't trust my Western eyes
At night she wanders about the jail cell
Her refusal's all too much to bear
The brilliance and light are left intangible
Language is lost now I just stare and stare and stare and stare
She's someone that can't be colored
With paint nor privilege nor another's blood
By way of protest and backwards passion
I sought to grab and then hold on
To what I thought was truth in the frigid grip of vanity
Where has it gone? Where has it gone? Where has it gone?
Now reckless flames
Engulf the frame of the one true monument
Contemplating words that left such scars
Composed with the cruelty of kindness
Her arms outstretched with lips ajar
I'd have her arrested
But she has no hands and I can't trust my Western eyes
At night she wanders about the jail cell
Her refusal's all too much to bear
The brilliance and light are left intangible
Language is lost now I just stare and stare and stare and stare
She's someone that can't be colored
With paint nor privilege nor another's blood
By way of protest and backwards passion
I sought to grab and then hold on
To what I thought was truth in the frigid grip of vanity
Where has it gone? Where has it gone? Where has it gone?
Now reckless flames
Engulf the frame of the one true monument
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:57.73] I gave up looking for easy answers
[01:06.75] Contemplating words that left such scars
[01:15.80] Composed with the cruelty of kindness
[01:25.71] Her arms outstretched with lips ajar
[01:34.84] I'd have her arrested
[01:37.50] But she has no hands and I can't trust my Western eyes
[02:02.94] At night she wanders about the jail cell
[02:11.92] Her refusal's all too much to bear
[02:22.87] The brilliance and light are left intangible
[02:31.81] Language is lost now I just stare and stare and stare and stare
[02:40.93] She's someone that can't be colored
[02:44.52] With paint nor privilege nor another's blood
[03:32.53] By way of protest and backwards passion
[03:41.51] I sought to grab and then hold on
[03:49.74] To what I thought was truth in the frigid grip of vanity
[04:00.58] Where has it gone? Where has it gone? Where has it gone?
[04:10.40] Now reckless flames
[04:12.08] Engulf the frame of the one true monument
[04:49.18]
[01:06.75] Contemplating words that left such scars
[01:15.80] Composed with the cruelty of kindness
[01:25.71] Her arms outstretched with lips ajar
[01:34.84] I'd have her arrested
[01:37.50] But she has no hands and I can't trust my Western eyes
[02:02.94] At night she wanders about the jail cell
[02:11.92] Her refusal's all too much to bear
[02:22.87] The brilliance and light are left intangible
[02:31.81] Language is lost now I just stare and stare and stare and stare
[02:40.93] She's someone that can't be colored
[02:44.52] With paint nor privilege nor another's blood
[03:32.53] By way of protest and backwards passion
[03:41.51] I sought to grab and then hold on
[03:49.74] To what I thought was truth in the frigid grip of vanity
[04:00.58] Where has it gone? Where has it gone? Where has it gone?
[04:10.40] Now reckless flames
[04:12.08] Engulf the frame of the one true monument
[04:49.18]