Here on the Ground - Luke Thompson

[00:08.90]Outside the door are
[00:11.00]the empty the poor
[00:13.00]Are the lives that are living no more
[00:17.90]Some of them grievers
[00:19.90]or broken believers
[00:22.16]Or used in some meaningless war
[00:26.90]Go see for yourself if you think it'll help
[00:30.69]But I just cannot go there no more
[00:35.20]Oh Lord I will not go outside the door
[00:49.00]Down on the street
[00:51.01]there's a rhythm a beat
[00:53.20]You get caught up you'll never get free
[00:58.23]A humming of heat to
[01:00.05]a strumming of feet
[01:02.05]You forget who you wanted to be
[01:07.02]And under the madness
[01:09.83]an echoing sadness
[01:11.75]That whispers you'll never be free
[01:16.19]No Lord I will not go down on the street
[01:29.90]Out into the city the groosem the gritty
[01:34.00]The lovers livers and lonely Away
[01:39.44]From my eyes in the thick fog the cries
[01:42.79]Of the bleeding broken and breaking
[01:47.31]Your name there is nothing
[01:49.57]the street signs are bluffing
[01:52.00]They'll put you wherever they please
[01:57.00]No Lord I will not go into the city
[02:05.39]Im already jaded already I'm fading
[02:10.15]There's nothing to learn or to know
[02:14.50]Oh Lord I will not go
[02:28.00]Under the bridge there
[02:30.47]the shadowy ridge there
[02:32.98]That hides and is keeping us hid
[02:37.00]Where nothing is growing
[02:39.01]nor sunlight is showing
[02:41.02]Or shining on all that we did
[02:45.78]And the rumble of cars
[02:48.04]that goes bellowing past
[02:50.31]They're just running away with the wind
[02:55.20]No Lord I will not go under the bridge
[03:13.10]Out into the battle they
[03:15.48]lead you like cattle
[03:17.48]And even they got their own laws
[03:22.00]You wont be locked up there
[03:24.76]nor shot or shocked up there
[03:26.51]For shooting a man to the floor
[03:31.00]They train you and break
[03:33.04]you and reeducate you
[03:35.55]But wont tell you why or what for
[03:40.10]No Lord I will not go into the war
[04:02.04]Up into the sky where
[04:05.08]the great engines fly
[04:06.84]Where they throw you
[04:08.09]and roll you like dice
[04:11.80]We've conquered the moon
[04:13.62]with explosions and fumes
[04:16.00]We have conquered the universe high
[04:20.50]But Looking back down
[04:22.39]there's a reasoning sound
[04:24.90]That says nobody gets out alive
[04:29.17]No Lord I will not go into Sky
[04:38.00]There's no one around
[04:40.20]just the beckoning sound
[04:42.95]And there's no room
[04:44.71]to dream or to grow
[04:47.22]Oh Lord I will not go
[04:58.00]Lord I will not go
[05:10.94]Here on the Ground we
[05:12.50]are lost we are found
[05:14.20]We are lonely and spinning around
[05:18.80]Away from the crowds
[05:21.34]and the armies of clowns
[05:23.84]Away from the carnival sounds
[05:28.10]And out of the deep
[05:30.12]where the tectonic sleeps
[05:32.38]And darkness will follow you down
[05:37.14]Oh Lord Just let me stay
[05:41.67]Here on the Ground