Emmett

Lyrics for Emmett

From the magnolias hang the strangest fruit Burnt apparitions, dismantled for all to see Caressed by soft wind, destroyed by weak men Look into the bleeding jaws of oblivion Black sludge, is filling the cracks All is bright, all is fire Held down by the chains of ephemera No remorse, no despair But a ungodly lust For the branded, for the shattered To be pulled down to the depths Violence moves the wheels of history And blood is coursing through its spokes The veil abandons all the light, all the light The haze of anguished cries It aches the bone, conceals the eye Forever more Let them see What they've done What they've done