The Mark - 8STOPS7

It was a false sense of security

It was a hard line not to take

And to escape the threat of mutiny

It was an easy thing to say

Keep placing bandages on our severed limbs

These dams will break, drown out the sounds of promises

Safe for now you rest easy

You are safe for now

Spread your seeds on the fields of

Our future affair with fertile ground

We have reasons to expect this temporary fix

To outlive all our kids, so rest easy

Because you are safe for now

And for these self-inflicted injuries

Every one of us will wear

All the scars of our lost century

Through another century of repair

We will lock our doors from this day forward

Surely things have changed in my neighborhood

Safe for now you rest easy

You are safe for now

Spread your seeds on the fields of

Our future affair with fertile ground

We have reasons to expect this temporary fix

To outlive all our kids, so rest easy

Because you are safe for now

Putting my ears to the floor as these board crack and splinter

Spread and make room for what’s brewing below

I consider my part in these walls that have risen

To protect us from things that were ours to control

We always come back

We always return

And we reunite

With our broken worlds

Too soon we are to forgive

And too soon to forget

Until it shoves you in a corner

And swings and connects

Safe for now you rest easy

You are safe for now

Spread your seeds on the fields of

Our future affair with fertile ground

We have reasons to expect this temporary fix

To outlive all our kids, so rest easy

We have reasons to expect

Temporary fix

Outlive all our kids, so rest easy

Because you are safe for now