City And Colour - Make Believe Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Make Believe Lyrics by City And Colour

I was raised in catholic school,

Taught to obey that one golden rule

That is, He who sits in the Heavens above

Deserves all your praise, devotion and your love

Because He had a son who had died for our sins

And with that sacrifice came a sense of contrition

That we all seem to feel when we’re down on our knees

Looking up to die hoping He’ll answer all our needs

But I tend to believe that it’s all for not

And when the sun does set, all our souls will rot

Along with our flesh and our bones and our blood

Will seep into the earth reconnecting with the mud

And I think to myself, what a beautiful lie

To waste being devote to what could all turn out to be a lie

To be a lie

Now I do not know, but I have been told

If you don’t believe in Him, well then the devil owns your soul

But let us just examine what’s below this land

It’s the story of a man with a pitchfork in his hand

Could you honestly believe in such a tall, tall tale

Something that sounds so make believe

Just like the sailor and the whale

Well I guess that this song has sealed my own fate

Lucifer won’t take me, ain’t crossing through no pearly gates

But if either one exists well that’s fine by me

I will gladly spend the afterlife waiting in purgatory, purgatory

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City And Colour - At The Bird's Foot Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

At The Bird's Foot Lyrics by City And Colour

There is a fire, burning in the ocean

With death black smoke and devil red flames

You can see it, burning from the valley,

Oh you can see it from the high planes

Well they went drillin'

Searching for black gold

To add more dollars to their names

Then one evening so suddenly and violent,

There was an explosion they can’t explain

Now the deep water horizon

Descends down to death's door

And at the bird’s foot

They’ve lost all hope

Cause oil is a driftin'

For miles and miles

Poisoning the Gulf of Mexico

But what of the eleven

Men at the bottom,

Who sank to

An underwater grave?

And while they were sinking

And their lungs filled with oil,

They must have been screaming,

Screaming to be saved

But what of the eleven

Men at the bottom,

Who sank to

An underwater grave?

And while they were sinking

And their lungs filled with oil,

They must have been screaming,

Screaming to be saved.

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City And Colour - Hope For Now Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Hope For Now Lyrics by City And Colour

This highway's dark and empty.

Just miles and miles of endless road.

I've got a sickness pounding in my head.

I'm at the mercy of the ghost.

What will it take to live as if I would not another day?

To live without despair, and to be without disdain.

How can I instill such hope, but be left with none of my own?

What if I could sing just one song and it might save somebody's life?

I sought after, after reasons to stay.

I was lost, I was lost.

Then the sky turned black,

And the rains poured down.

I was waiting, waiting to be found, oh, no

How can I instill such hope, but be left with none of my own?

What if I could sing just one song and it might save somebody's life?

Then I would sing all that I could sing

Cause that is when, when I feel that I'm not just counting time.

Oh when I sing all that I can sing

Maybe just for a moment things would seem all right.

Oh when I sing, oh when I sing

Oh when I sing, oh when I sing

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City And Colour - Silver And Gold Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Silver And Gold Lyrics by City And Colour

Last night I dreamt that they dropped a bomb

Oh the seas ran dry and the winds had calmed

The skyscrapers fell and crumbled to dust,

And their skeletons of steel were covered in rust

And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

Oh everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

Colours were drained straight from the sky

And nothing living had survived

Mountains were merely removed from the earth

And silver and gold had lost all its worth

And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

Oh everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

I woke from the dream in a cold, cold sweat

I was full of doubt and deep regret,

For suddenly it was all so clear to me

There was nothing left in which to believe

And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

Oh everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared

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City And Colour - Sorrowing Man Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Sorrowing Man Lyrics by City And Colour

Sorrowing man, look how worn you've become,

You once were Lord of the baron sea

There’s blood on our hands, in this perfect madness,

You're living on borrowed time

Oh how you have lost your way

Oh how you have lost your way

There's no sympathy for we don't know the cure,

Cause what you've got, well it runs too pure

But you've lived and breathed more than any man I know

But you're not done, oh, at least, I hope

Oh how you have lost your way

Oh how you have lost your way

In this life what we have made together

Oh how you have lost your way

Oh how you have lost your way

Oh how you have lost your way

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City And Colour - Weightless Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Weightless Lyrics by City And Colour

Come close, lay next to me

Come close, lay next to me

I need to tell you something important

So stay close, remain next to me

I need to feel important

It's your eyes I don't believe

And my heart, you will, you will mislead

Do you know the consequence that comes with having such confidence?

Holding all the weight in my life

Then you turn and walk away from me

So what is this now, you ask of me?

What makes your pain such an urgency?

Now I want out, so plain to see

Once again my dear, a brand new tragedy

Holding all the weight in my life

Then you turn and you walk away from me

Holding all the weight in my life

Then you turn and you walk away from me

Bleeding all the strength from my life

Then you turn and you run away from me

You’re bleeding all the strength from my life

Then you turn and you run away from me

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City And Colour - O' Sister Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

O' Sister Lyrics by City And Colour

O' sister,

What's wrong with your mind?

You used to be, so strong and stable.

My sister, what made you fall from grace?

I'm sorry that I, was not there to catch you.

What have the demons done?

What have the demons done with the luminous light,

That once shined from your eyes?

What makes you feel so alone?

Is it the whispering ghosts, that you fear the most?

But the blackness in your heart won't last forever.

I know it's tearing you apart,

But it's a storm you can weather.

O' sister,

Those lines etched in your hands

They're hardened and rough

Like a road map of sorrow

My sister,

There is a sadness on your face.

You're like a motherless child, whose longing for comfort.

What's running through your veins, that's causing you such pain?

Does it have something to do, with the pills they gave to you?

What is eating at your soul?

Was it the whispering ghost, that left you out in the cold?

But the blackness in your heart, won't, last forever.

I know it's tearing you apart

But it's a storm you can weather.

O' sister,

My sister.

O' sister,

My sister.

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City And Colour - Northern Wind Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Northern Wind Lyrics by City And Colour

You're the Northern Wind

Sending shivers down my spine

You're like fallen leaves

In an autumn night

You're the lullaby

Singing me to sleep

You are the other half

You're like the missing piece

Oh my love

Oh my love

Oh my love

You don't know

What you do to me

You are all four seasons

Rolled into one

You're like the cold December snow

In the warm July sun

I'm the jet black sky

That's just before the rain

Like the mighty current

Pulling you under the waves

Oh my love

Oh my love

Oh my love

You don't know

What you do to me

I'm the darkest hour

Just before the dawn

And I'm slowly sinking

Into the the slough of despond

Like an old guitar

Worn out and left behind

I have stories still to tell

They're of the healing kind

Oh my love

Oh my love

Oh my love

If I could just find you tonight

If I could just find you tonight

Oh my love

Do do do

Do do do

Do do do

Do do do

Do do do

Do do do

Do do do

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City And Colour - Fragile Bird Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Fragile Bird Lyrics by City And Colour

When she sleeps

There is a fever dream, yeah

It brings a night terror

To harm this fragile bird

She speaks in tongues

Her words they come undone, yeah

And with a wayward mind

She struggles through the night

All that I can do

Is hope she makes it through

Through the night

Through the night

These cold nightmares

They make her worse for wear

Lost in the dark

She's got a heavy heart

And when she wakes

In her fragile state

Well, she calls my name

Hoping that I keep her safe

All that I can do

Is hope she makes it through

All that I can do

Is hope she makes it through

Through the night

Through the night

Through the night

Through the night

All that I can do

Is hope she makes it through

All that I can do

Is hope she makes it through

Through the night

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City And Colour - Little Hell Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Little Hell Lyrics by City And Colour

What if I can't be all that you need me to be

We've got a good thing going, we have some promises to keep

But my addiction it can be such a detriment

Please believe in this my dear, I am more than penitent

What if everything’s just the way that it will be

Could it be that I am meant to cause you all this grief

My war ships are lying off the coast of your delicate heart

And my aim is steady and true as it's been right from the start

There's a degree of difficulty in dealing with me

From my haunted past comes a daunting task of living through memories.

If we could just hang a mirror on the bedroom wall,

Stare into the past and forget it all

So when we leave it'll be a quick midnight escape

We'll disconnect ourselves from all of yesterday

I'll dig for water and fashion our very own wishing well

Then we'll throw our coins down hoping to rid of us of this little hell

There's a degree of difficulty in dealing with me

From my haunted past comes a daunting task of living through memories.

If we could just hang a mirror on the bedroom wall,

Stare into the past and forget it all

Will we get out of this little hell?

Will we get out of this little hell?

Will we get out of this little hell?

Will we get out of this little hell?

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City And Colour - The Grand Optimist Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

The Grand Optimist Lyrics by City And Colour

I fear I'll die from complications,

Complications due to things that I've left undone

That all my debts will be left unpaid,

Feel like a cripple without a cane

I'm like a Jack of all trades who’s a master of none

Then there's my father he's always looking on the bright side

Saying things like “Son, life just ain’t that hard”

He is the grand optimist, I am the world’s poor pessimist

You give him burdens sometimes and he will escape unscarred

I guess I take after my mother,

I guess I take after my mother

But I used to be quite resilient,

Gained no strength from counting the beads on a rosary

And now the wound has begun to turn,

Another lesson that has gone unlearned

But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy

I guess I take after my mother,

I guess I take after my mother,

I guess I take after my mother,

I guess I take after my mother

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City And Colour - Natural Disaster Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

Natural Disaster Lyrics by City And Colour

Can you imagine all the homes abandoned and all alone?

With no one left to care for them, wilting in moss.

The paint is peeling off the walls.

The corners are filled up with dust.

Cigarette smoke hangs in the air,

And the grass ain't growing like it did long ago.

Whether a natural disaster ripped it from its foundation

Or an economic tragedy tore apart its family

They're all empty.

The pipes have long since seized.

The windows are all boarded up.

There's no electricity flowing through these lifeless veins.

Cracks are running down the walls

Where picture frames used to hang.

A hint of heartbreak still lingers in the air,

And weeds have choked the breath out of it long ago.

Whether a natural disaster ripped it from its foundation

Or an economic tragedy tore apart its family

They're all empty.

They're all empty.

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City And Colour - We Found Each Other In The Dark Lyrics

City And Colour Little Hell Album 2011

We Found Each Other In The Dark Lyrics by City And Colour

I heard the church bells from afar,

But we found each other in the dark.

And when the smoke does finally pass

We will rise above all the ash.

Cause we're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live

We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live

We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live

At last.

So bright, the flames burned in our hearts,

That we found each other in the dark.

Black beast, out in the wilderness

We are fighting to survive and convalesce.

But we're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live

We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live

We're gonna live, we're gonna live, we're gonna live

Like the rest.

Through the black soulless water,

And the cold lonely air.

On the rock restless seas,

The vessel in deep disrepair.

And the swans they started singing,

But then oh, rejoice!

I can still hear your voice.

Then I heard the church bells from afar

But we found each other in the dark.

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