the skies are silent
the birds you loved have left the island
the skies are silent
the birds you loved have left the island
let's run away
i'm done with this
we were both born in a place
where we never once thought we would stay
let's run away
the signs of life
we'll leave behind
are growing weaker each day
they'll never notice we're gone
that's the way things go, i guess
do you remember this festival
we both once went to separately?
where it felt like a different world
but it rained like england
and though i didn't know you then
i secretly hope that you saw me
and when we gazed into our heroes' eyes
we did it lovingly
and when we said we could save the world
we said it hopefully
and when the sun came up
the people i saw were just like me
and i wonder how they're feeling now
in a country lost at sea
now our heroes are gone
and the world keeps getting worse
now our heroes are gone
and the music fades to silence
this place is a mess
i mean we had some success
but at what cost?
who built your houses
with the lives they had lost?
remind me
which ends are justifying these means
really
could the summer rain
have washed away
those words we said
at glastonbury?
the skies are silent
the birds you loved have left the island
the skies are silent
the birds you loved have left the island
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