The Gaslight Anthem - Orphans lyrics

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Goodbye circus wheel

May you rest along the sea

I have given you the fire of my youth

And the triumph o're my enemies

Goodbye fair weather home, and your faithless factories

I have given you the blood and the truth

from the wounds they laid onto me

And whatever they left, well, I kept it for my own heart

And the lonesome all understand

With the choirs in my head

And we were orphans before

We were ever the sons of regret

My baby

And on and on and on

the alphabet boys carry on

We were orphans before

We were ever the sons of these songs

And now my lights, they never go down

they waltz the moon and stars for me now

So you can find some local libertine

to take your daughters out on the town

And I can feel it in my aging bones

How the sound of the rain mixes up

into the fountains where I drank my hero's blood

So I left you to find my very own hat full of rain

And the lonesome all understand

With the choirs in my head

And we were orphans before

We were ever the sons of regret

My baby

And on and on and on

the alphabet boys carry on

We were orphans before

We were ever the sons of these songs

Now I'm trying to keep it straight

Learning all the streets and the alleyways

And learning where they lead

Now that I'm left alone here to drive

But it's so hard to stand on your own

Against mirror of glass, hard and cold

But the clothes I wore

Just don't fit my soul anymore

No the clothes I wore

Just don't fit my soul anymore

And the lonesome all understand

With the choirs in my head

And we were orphans before

We were ever the sons of regret

My baby

And on and on and on

the alphabet boys carry on

We were orphans before

We were ever the sons of these songs

When we were young

We were diamond Sinatras

Like something I saw in a dream

We kept our secrets in rooms

locked up tight like a tomb

Where the ballerinas lay