Artifex Pereo - Cut Sign lyrics

rate me

(Verse)

Walk. Keep up with me, don't look back

Don't look at the dying men

The devil is in this dust and he's calling on us

Each rock is a tombstone that rests a soul whose bargain was not upheld

The peaks and the canyons, so beautiful,

Hold collections beneath this ground

The river's gone, for the earth is deprived as well

We need a new kind of prayer to beat this hell

(Pre-Chorus)

Son, be strong

Remember why we chose to risk our lives

Picture your mother with a roof above her head and a smile that never ends

(Chorus)

This test is one that will earn us all we deserve

I'll be damned if imaginary lines keep us away

From the land known for its harvesting of hopes and dreams

I'll be damned if a fellow man decides my family's fate

With enchantments and deceptions, coyotes led us to a certain death

Pockets lined with greed, shared like our blood

But our greed was born to different mothers

(Interlude)

We're getting close, or maybe just wishing so

Burning flesh and swelling backs have left us crawling through failure

Suffocating, swelling hearts hang by the threads sewn by loved ones

(Pre-Chorus)

Son, be strong

Remember why we chose to risk our lives

Picture your mother with a roof above her head and a smile that never ends

(Chorus)

This test is one that will earn us all we deserve

I'll be damned if imaginary lines keep us away

From the land known for its harvesting of hopes and dreams

I'll be damned if a fellow man decides my family's fate

With enchantments and deceptions, coyotes led us to a certain death

Pockets lined with greed, shared like our blood

But our greed was born to different mothers