Super excited about this installment of Sleeping at Last's Yearbook EP!! Why? Jon Foreman is in one of the songs!! Lyrics below.
Outlines
Hidden in plain sight
The world is an outline
Of shapes I used to know
Like pulling ribbon
All of a sudden
The curtains draw back slow
Though I've been distracted
I am caught up in static
No more
Garden of Eden
Lower your branches
For another year
I'm dust unsettled
Until they reappear
Though my hands are prone
To trial and error
I'm crossing my fingers
For something to hold
I can't help but hope for brighter
Here in the shadows of letting go
God, may these good intentions
Be the outline of so much more
When I breathe from now on
I'll mean it more than ever I did before
Birthright
She was raised by wolves
In the warmth of their fur
Surrounded by fangs
She knew that she was secure
Language barriers
Made no difference at all
When you're truly cared for
There's no purpose for walls
His fences stood tall
As the shoulders of old
But he dreamt that one day
Maybe he'd break the mold
But time shyly stands still
When you watch it unfold
From these ivory towers
Freedom is only a ghost
Privilege and pain
When compared look the same
Comprehension begins
When we pull back the lense
Right or wrong
Tension makes us stronger
By making us weak
When we needed to be
They made her their queen
On the day she was born
They placed on her a crown
She wasn't ready for
But all impossible odds
Foreshadow our means
Like paving a road
To a kingdom we've never seen
He woke up one day
Written out of the will
They swore he'd be ok
With lesser shoes to fill
What doesn't kill us
Makes us stronger they say
Our only birthright in this life
Is the breath we take
Our fables tell our truths
Outlines
Hidden in plain sight
The world is an outline
Of shapes I used to know
Like pulling ribbon
All of a sudden
The curtains draw back slow
Though I've been distracted
I am caught up in static
No more
Garden of Eden
Lower your branches
For another year
I'm dust unsettled
Until they reappear
Though my hands are prone
To trial and error
I'm crossing my fingers
For something to hold
I can't help but hope for brighter
Here in the shadows of letting go
God, may these good intentions
Be the outline of so much more
When I breathe from now on
I'll mean it more than ever I did before
Birthright
She was raised by wolves
In the warmth of their fur
Surrounded by fangs
She knew that she was secure
Language barriers
Made no difference at all
When you're truly cared for
There's no purpose for walls
His fences stood tall
As the shoulders of old
But he dreamt that one day
Maybe he'd break the mold
But time shyly stands still
When you watch it unfold
From these ivory towers
Freedom is only a ghost
Privilege and pain
When compared look the same
Comprehension begins
When we pull back the lense
Right or wrong
Tension makes us stronger
By making us weak
When we needed to be
They made her their queen
On the day she was born
They placed on her a crown
She wasn't ready for
But all impossible odds
Foreshadow our means
Like paving a road
To a kingdom we've never seen
He woke up one day
Written out of the will
They swore he'd be ok
With lesser shoes to fill
What doesn't kill us
Makes us stronger they say
Our only birthright in this life
Is the breath we take
Our fables tell our truths
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