Song

[avevale_intelligencer]

Hold Back The Sunrise

Verse
Everywhere the old men are digging in
Shoring up the boundaries
What they call virtue
What they call sin
Saying crazy things
Trying to clip enlightenment's wings
And you can hide your eyes
But you can't hold back the sunrise...


Chorus
Hold back the sunrise
Try to stem the tide
There's a new day coming
And the news is spreading far and wide
Hold back the sunrise
Make the world stand still
You can try till you die
But you never will
Hold back the sunrise!


Verse
Everywhere the old men are building forts
Making laws against everything
And trying to stamp out
Wicked thoughts
It's one rule for you
And one for them, that's nothing new
They can pull the wool over your eyes
But they can't hold back the sunrise...


Chorus
Hold back the sunrise
Try to stem the tide
There's a new day coming
And the news is spreading far and wide
Hold back the sunrise
Make the world stand still
You can try till you die
But you never will
Hold back the sunrise!


Bridge
Change has always been the only constant
And that was fine when it was going your way
But we could never stay asleep forever
Always knew we would wake up some day
Now we're stirring, throwing off the covers
Drawing the curtains, letting in the sun
It's a day for the makers, the dreamers and the lovers
And your day is done...


Instrumental



Verse
Everywhere the old men are going for broke
Some see them as anachronistic
Maybe a nuisance
Or maybe a joke
For now they have the power
But you know what follows the darkest hour
They can pluck out their eyes
But they'll never hold back the sunrise..


Chorus
Hold back the sunrise
Try to stem the tide
There's a new day coming
And the news is spreading far and wide
Hold back the sunrise
Make the world stand still
You can try till you die
But you never will...


Chorus
Hold back the sunrise
Try to stem the tide
There's a new world coming
And the end of the line for your ticket to ride
Hold back the sunrise
Make the world stand still
You can try till you die
But you never will
Hold back the sunrise!




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Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

*applauds*

[delennara.livejournal.com]

Wow. You are not catholic, are you?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

No, though I was for a while. The song isn't specifically about the church, but about all the entrenched, monolithic power structures in the world, of which the church is only one and not by any means the worst.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I like it! :)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

::spplauds::

I always did like the story of King Canute, and this is a neat change rung upon it.