Just A Book (Bitter Ruin)

There's a scroll you've yet to read out loud Get rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling out Rolling out the red like blood spill and I will be Holding, holding, holding, holding on Say what you need to Your stones cannot bare like threats of a snare So tear up these words like they're meat for the hungry The 'nobody told me'(s) These words, nobody ever hears Just a book to be read Waiting on the seabed Under the weighty waves For years To the press we'll take it shave off slim pay offs for Turning, turning, turning, turning out All the leaves of all the tree breasts we use for the chests Now burning, burning, burning, burning Our candles both ends but Are you not tempted? Empty and rented Looting your temples and making example Pack-like to handle and These words, nobody ever hears Just a book to be read Waiting on the seabed Under the weighty waves For years Call, call them out From under the decks of wrecks and I'll bet you all They'll be loud Louder than thunder but silent in slumber These words, nobody ever hears Just a book to be read Waiting on the seabed Under the weighty waves For years