Bad Blood

You fixed your eyes on us Your flesh and blood A sculpture of water and unsettled dust And there was bad blood in us We learned our lesson Genesis to the last generation So we wrestle with it all The concept of grace The faithful concrete As it breaks our fall Our questions are all the same A den of cold words How they feel brand new Against different time frames A den of cold words Against different time frames We know it all by heart The whole is greater Than the sum of its parts We heard it all before And beauty there echoes The speck of our souls And beauty there echoes The speck of our souls Like firewood burning bright In the dead of winter Now only the flicker can cling to this life So we heard it over mass Is a faith a prediction Wear our tradition until we collapse And argue our bearings until we collapse We study our story arcs Inherently good Or were we broken right from the start' Our hesitant fingerprints Trace every mountain Lace every valley Until we're convinced We know it all by heart Every blade of grass Bears our mark And the name will be engraved Oh it's just another word For being afraid We know it all by heart The whole is so much greater Than the sum of its parts We heard the truth before And beauty there echoes The speck of our souls And beauty there echoes The speck of our souls And beauty there echoes The speck of our souls