Perseverance Of The Saints

by Owen Pallett

From the album: Island

Track 6 of 15 on Island (2020).

Duration: 3:54

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Lyrics for Perseverance Of The Saints

I wake up in the night My body is paralyzed Mind is running reckless Colors are all alive All across my eyelids The silence of the spheres What manner of evil Would think it engineered? Still, I left my friends and family pastured And boarded a ship to spread the news When I started to feel like I believed in a lie I climbed up the mountain to get my dues Nobody wanted him dead Nobody wanted him dead Cargo on the jetty knocks me out of reverie It is only in my lover's arms That I can ever sleep In regeneration we will all persevere Sun across our bodies How long we been lying here? Memory is what makes you older You hold on to memory Like a mother-hoarder And time gets quick as you administrate All the leavings of the passing years And I pull your arms around me I pull your arms around me Did I pick you up so I could feel again Like the boy who had the eye of every man? I pull your arms around me I pull your arms around me

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  1. ---> (i)
  2. Transformer
  3. Paragon Of Order
  4. ---> (ii)
  5. The Sound Of The Engines
  6. Perseverance Of The Saints
  7. Polar Vortex
  8. ---> (iii)
  9. A Bloody Morning
  10. Fire-Mare
  11. Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space
  12. ---> (iv)
  13. In Darkness
  14. Paragon Of Order - version
  15. Fire-Mare - version