Karate 01 - Small Fires Lyrics

Within the influence
of innocence
you were dressed to kill.
Pulling styles from the atmosphere,
you could have dressed us all.
As we surrendered
to the worn jets,
"impossible to crash,
impossible to fail",
like the dim lights on the dash,
as we were pulling out
of anywhere
on any other road.
Now I can tell by the way the rain hits the glass
that it wants to be cold.
It wants to be snow.
Is it falling there,
obscuring small fires
that deign another shining front-page spread,
where old worn men conspire?

So much
for Saturdays
and other days
when lives are at stake.
God forgive us
for the hatred,
for the risks
that we take.
Boys forget promises
from both coasts.
What would it take
to get out now?

Is this what they call the end?
Are we sleeping on a dark star?
Is this some saint we all forgot?
Is she burning in a parked car?
Violence is so, so slow,
and the patience will do us in.
So mothers, stop looking for your sons in the wood,
because you will find them on CNN.
That's when you will try...try,
but you can't evict the sun.
It lights on one hour, every morning, every day,
when you know you are the one.

So much
for Saturdays
and other days
when lives are at stake.
God forgive us
for the hatred,
for the risks
that we take.
Boys forget promises
from both coasts.
What would it take
forget promises
from both coasts.
What would it take