The Penultimate Year - Hellions
For the pipe dreams of the luminous and eloquent
Shunned to elucidate ostentatious temperament
We've got to draw the line
To ostracise the talented from the contrived
For a gentlemen soaked to bone in gin
Doing anything to leave that void he's in
While the born writers craft with pen and a page
The charlatans preach behind a mic on a stage
I won't pick to pieces what I don't understand
But I know that no power nor pride makes a man
Forfeit conjecture relinquish your fear
Stand alone in the penultimate year
Fear draws near always weighing us down
Always weighing us down
To a family underground an airloom stands proud
Airloom stands proud
'Cause he's not so much his fathers son
More a product of his fathers battles won
Of the blood sweat tears tried and true all these years
Through a bloodline ripe with musical pioneers
Unsung
Unsung
I won't pick to pieces what I don't understand
But I know that no power nor pride makes a man
Forfeit conjecture relinquish your fear
Stand alone in the penultimate
My heart is heavy burdened with the weight
Of good men and women who could've been great
A moment in it's radiance will change your mind
And an hour
Will change your life
Wake up take a chance
Take step out your door
F**k the money f**k the fame
Know we can still change this world
F**k the cardinal charlatans
Pull on that thread
Until the bigotry unravels and reveals amends
F**k it
Wake up
Now ha
Take a step out your door
Wake up
Ha now
Take a step out your
Door