Same Shade as Concrete

Song Same Shade as Concrete
Artist Circle Takes the Square
Album As the Roots Undo

Lyrics

作曲 : Circle Takes The Square
Rejoice, rejoice a noble
BIRTH A PR
INCE IS BO
RN BEHOLD
THE BIRTH
OF VIOLENC
E BEASTS O
F FANG AND
FEATHER CR
Y FOR OUR
CONCRETE R
APTURE AND
IF WE BEG
TO BE PUT
DOWN UNTO
US THE MOS
T INSPIRED
STORM A PR
INCESS RAV
AGED BY HE
R PRINCE B
EHOLD THE
BIRTH OF S
EX AND DIS
TANCE TWO
FRAIL CORP
SES BOTH W
ERE THEY H
IS EYES WE
RE THE FIR
ST TO STRA
Y EVERY TR
EE HELD FA
ST THE EAR
TH TO SKY
CONCRETE R
EPLACES EV
ERY BRANCH
AND TWIG A
S THEY WER
E FRAYED U
PON THE BI
RTH OF AMB
ITION THE
HEAVENS FI
LLED OUR G
ILDED VESS
EL WITH PO
ISON TEARS
BEFORE WE
DRINK I PR
OPOSE A TO
AST A FINA
L PRAYER H
ERE'S TO T
HE WATCHER
S IN THE W
OOD HERE'S
TO THE LAS
T DAYS UNT
O US A MOS
T INSPIRED
SONG Shaper stop the music
Halt the harp strings whose chords (Music patterns that)
Confuse our histories with textures
With the disheartened chorus
Of a hymnal whose choir is the conviction of the starving
ARTLESS TE
MPTED BY T
HE FEAST O
F PROOF TH
AT THIS BO
DY THAT TH
IS BODY OF
WORK HAS W
ORTH Uncertain as the fingering
Of a chord torn prematurely
From a piano's womb
AS WE FILL
OUR PRECIO
US LUNGS W
ITH CONCRE
TE THAT FA
ITHFUL SHA
DE A SHAPE
R'S SONG I
S STOPPED
SHORT A DY
ING BREATH
A SINGING
SHORE THEN
THE ONLY M
OVEMENT AN
D THE LAST
REMAINS OF
GRACE POLL
EN FALLING
OFF THE SI
MPLE HINGE
JOINT LEG
Upon the final breath of a dragonfly
A CARDINAL
LOST BUT H
EADSTRONG
IN MID FLI
GHT CRIES
FOR OUR CO
NCRETE RAP
TURE (Wade in the water wade (4x)) (Wade in the water Wade in the water child (6x))
Wade (Let the flood swell) (10x)
THE FAITHF
UL SAY ITS
BEAUTIFUL
ITS GOD'S
WILL BUT T
HE FOOL KN
OWS WHAT T
HE PROPHET
S HAVE SEE
N NO SALVA
TION'S IMP
ENDING THE
FAITHFUL S
AY ITS BEA
UTIFUL ITS
GOD'S WILL
LET THE FL
OOD SWELL
AND THE BO
DIES THAT
BREAK WE'L
L JUST FLO
AT DOWN TH
E RIVER Stay tame soft river
While we weigh our faith stay sweet
Run softly sweet river
The fool who wades in doubt will float like concrete (Come and, come and fill your lungs (8x))
THERE'S SO
MUCH HOPE
BURIED UND
ERNEATH (2x)
TRAGEDY IT
S THE SAME
SHADE AS C
ONCRETE (2x)
THE FAITHF
UL SAY ITS
BEAUTIFUL
ITS GOD'S
WILL LET T
HE FLOOD S
WELL ON TH
E LOUDSPEA
KER SERMON
S AND A PA
RISH DESCE
NDING THER
E'S SO MUC
H HOPE BUR
IED UNDERN
EATH TRAGE
DY ITS THE
SAME SHADE
AS CONCRET
E LET THE
FLOOD SWEL
L

Pinyin

zuò qǔ : Circle Takes The Square
Rejoice, rejoice a noble
BIRTH A PR
INCE IS BO
RN BEHOLD
THE BIRTH
OF VIOLENC
E BEASTS O
F FANG AND
FEATHER CR
Y FOR OUR
CONCRETE R
APTURE AND
IF WE BEG
TO BE PUT
DOWN UNTO
US THE MOS
T INSPIRED
STORM A PR
INCESS RAV
AGED BY HE
R PRINCE B
EHOLD THE
BIRTH OF S
EX AND DIS
TANCE TWO
FRAIL CORP
SES BOTH W
ERE THEY H
IS EYES WE
RE THE FIR
ST TO STRA
Y EVERY TR
EE HELD FA
ST THE EAR
TH TO SKY
CONCRETE R
EPLACES EV
ERY BRANCH
AND TWIG A
S THEY WER
E FRAYED U
PON THE BI
RTH OF AMB
ITION THE
HEAVENS FI
LLED OUR G
ILDED VESS
EL WITH PO
ISON TEARS
BEFORE WE
DRINK I PR
OPOSE A TO
AST A FINA
L PRAYER H
ERE' S TO T
HE WATCHER
S IN THE W
OOD HERE' S
TO THE LAS
T DAYS UNT
O US A MOS
T INSPIRED
SONG Shaper stop the music
Halt the harp strings whose chords Music patterns that
Confuse our histories with textures
With the disheartened chorus
Of a hymnal whose choir is the conviction of the starving
ARTLESS TE
MPTED BY T
HE FEAST O
F PROOF TH
AT THIS BO
DY THAT TH
IS BODY OF
WORK HAS W
ORTH Uncertain as the fingering
Of a chord torn prematurely
From a piano' s womb
AS WE FILL
OUR PRECIO
US LUNGS W
ITH CONCRE
TE THAT FA
ITHFUL SHA
DE A SHAPE
R' S SONG I
S STOPPED
SHORT A DY
ING BREATH
A SINGING
SHORE THEN
THE ONLY M
OVEMENT AN
D THE LAST
REMAINS OF
GRACE POLL
EN FALLING
OFF THE SI
MPLE HINGE
JOINT LEG
Upon the final breath of a dragonfly
A CARDINAL
LOST BUT H
EADSTRONG
IN MID FLI
GHT CRIES
FOR OUR CO
NCRETE RAP
TURE Wade in the water wade 4x Wade in the water Wade in the water child 6x
Wade Let the flood swell 10x
THE FAITHF
UL SAY ITS
BEAUTIFUL
ITS GOD' S
WILL BUT T
HE FOOL KN
OWS WHAT T
HE PROPHET
S HAVE SEE
N NO SALVA
TION' S IMP
ENDING THE
FAITHFUL S
AY ITS BEA
UTIFUL ITS
GOD' S WILL
LET THE FL
OOD SWELL
AND THE BO
DIES THAT
BREAK WE' L
L JUST FLO
AT DOWN TH
E RIVER Stay tame soft river
While we weigh our faith stay sweet
Run softly sweet river
The fool who wades in doubt will float like concrete Come and, come and fill your lungs 8x
THERE' S SO
MUCH HOPE
BURIED UND
ERNEATH 2x
TRAGEDY IT
S THE SAME
SHADE AS C
ONCRETE 2x
THE FAITHF
UL SAY ITS
BEAUTIFUL
ITS GOD' S
WILL LET T
HE FLOOD S
WELL ON TH
E LOUDSPEA
KER SERMON
S AND A PA
RISH DESCE
NDING THER
E' S SO MUC
H HOPE BUR
IED UNDERN
EATH TRAGE
DY ITS THE
SAME SHADE
AS CONCRET
E LET THE
FLOOD SWEL
L