08 Violet Hill

[00:40.72] Was a long and dark December

[00:43.71] From the rooftops I remember

[00:46.47] There was snow

[00:49.46] White snow

[00:53.21] Clearly I remember

[00:55.96] From the windows they were watching

[00:58.98] While we froze down below

[01:05.46] When the future's architecture

[01:08.72] By a carnival of idiots on show

[01:14.22] You'd better lie low

[01:17.73] If you love me

[01:20.97] Won't you let me know?

[01:29.23] Was a long and dark December

[01:32.47] When the banks became cathedrals

[01:35.46] And the fog

[01:38.21] Became God

[01:41.96] Priests clutched onto bibles

[01:44.98] Hollowed out to fit their rifles

[01:47.97] And the cross was held aloft

[01:54.72] Bury me in armor

[01:57.64] When I'm dead and hit the ground

[02:00.39] My nerves are poles that unfroze

[02:06.64] If you love me

[02:09.88] Won't you let me know?

[02:43.39] I don't want to be a soldier

[02:46.63] Who the captain of some sinking ship

[02:49.89] Would stow

[02:52.65] Far below

[02:55.64] So if you love me

[02:58.88] Why'd you let me go?

[03:08.39] I took my love down to violet hill

[03:14.39] There we sat in snow

[03:18.89] All the time she was silent and still

[03:23.89] So if you love me

[03:27.39] Won't you let me know?

[03:32.14] If you love me

[03:35.13] Won't you let me know?