Seven Nations

Faithful Departed

Seven Nations


This Graveyard Hides a Million Secrets 
And the Trees Know More Than They Can Tell 
The Ghosts of the Saints and the Scholars Will Haunt You 
In Heaven and in Hell

Rattled By the Glimmer Man, the Boogie Man, the Holy Man 
And Livin' in the Shadows, in the Shadows of a Gunman 
Rattled Like the Coppers in Your Greasy Till 
Rattled Until Time Stood Still

Look Over Your Shoulder, Hear the School Bell Ring 
Another Day of Made-to-measure History 
I Don't Care If Your Heroes Have Wings 
Your Terrible Beauty's Been Torn

Faithful Departed, We Fickle Hearted 
As You Are Now So Once Were We 
Faithful Departed, We the Meek Hearted 
With Graces Imparted Bring Flowers to Thee

The Girls in the Kips Proclaim Their Love For You 
When You Stumbled in They Knew You Had a Shilling Or Two 
They Cursed You On Sundays and Holy Days 
When You All Stayed Away

When You Slept There a Naked Lightbulb Hid Your Shame 
The Shadows On the Wall, They Took All the Blame. 
The Sacred Heart's Picture, Compassion in His Eyes 
Drowned Out the River of Sighs

Let the Grass Grow Green Over the Brewery Tonight 
It'll Never Come Between the Darkness and the Light 
There Is no Pain That Can't Be Eased 
By the Devil's Holy Water and the Rosary Beads

Faithful Departed, We Fickle Hearted 
As You Are Now So Once Were We 
Faithful Departed, We the Meek Hearted 
With Graces Imparted Bring Flowers to Thee

You're a History Book I Never Could Write 
Poetry in Paralysis, Too Deep to Recite 
Dress Yourself and Bless Yourself, You've Won the Fight 
We're Gonna Celebrate Tonight

Maybe We'll Even Climb the Pillar Like You Always Meant to 
Watch the Sun Rise Over the Strand 
Close Your Eyes and We'll Pretend 
It Could Somehow Be the Same Again

I'll Bury You Upright So the Sun Doesn't Blind You 
You Won't Have to Gaze At the Rain and the Stars 
Sleep and Dream of Chapels and Bars 
And Whiskey in the Jar

Faithful Departed, Look What You've Started 
An Underdog's Wounds Aren't So Easy to Mend 
Faithful Departed, no Broken-hearted 
And no More Tristesse in Your World Without End