The Foundations Of Decay Song Lyrics by My Chemical Romance
See the man who stands upon the hill
He dreams of all the battles won But fate had left its scars upon his face With all the damage they had doneAnd so tired with age, he turns the page
Let the flesh submit itself to gravityLet our bodies lay, mark our hearts with shame
Let our blood in vain, you find God in pain Now, if your convictions were a passing phase May your ashes feed the river in the morning rays And as the vermin crawls, we lay in the foundations of decayHe was there the day the towers fell
And so he wandered down the road And we would all build towers of our own Only to watch the roots corrodeBut it’s much too late, you’re in the race
So we’ll press and press ’til you can’t take it anymoreLet our bodies lay, mark our hearts with shame
Let our blood in vain, you find God in pain And if, by his own hand, his spirit flies Take his body as a relic to be canonized Now, and so he gets to die a saint But she will always be a whoreAgainst faith (cage all the animals)
Against all odds (’cause the message must be pure) Against change (you can wander through the ruins) We are free (but the poison is the cure)You must fix your heart
And you must build an altar where it swells When the storm, it gains and the sky, it rains Let it flood, let it flood, let it wash away And as you stumble through your last crusade Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays? And as the swarm it calls, we lay in the foundationsYes, it comforts me much more
Yes, it comforts me much more To lay in the foundations of decayGet up, coward