Virtue and Vitriol

Lyrics for Virtue and Vitriol

My hands are all hardened and callused From the only way we know to live So they reach out to let you keep biting When there’s nothing they have left to give My heart has accepted its beating This tongue only knows to forgive When these feet only dance to the rhythm you’ve chosen The mind can’t remember what it is But maybe, this is how the world made me The night comes to save me With the mercy of a dream Cause I can’t only be A hand that needs you The blade never cares for the handle The lie doesn’t understand truth It’s less of the morals and more of the lessons That keep me coming back to you In every book that’s ever been written Even if I learned every tongue There aren’t enough words to explain all the damage you’ve done With your virtue and vitriol Dah-dah-dah, dah-dah-dah Dah-dah dah-dah, dah-dah Dah-dah, dah-dah-dah But maybe, there’s another world that’s waiting And the night will come take me With the mercy of a dream Cause I have to believe I’m more than a hand to feed you My hands are all hardened and callused There isn’t much I have left to give When the gravedigger reaches to bury my body There’s nothing you’ve left to put in