You once shared a cradle with me
Now you're wearing riot gear
You claimed angel hood and fury
Now your lungs are breathing fear
You were the masthead of the ship
Now you play the mutineer
But I recognize you
Yes I recognize you
You were butterflies in legion
Now you're smoke over the plains
You were prides of turbid lions
Now you're proud of being tame
You walked the hallway of the gods
Now you stumble through remains
But I recognize you
Still I recognize you
I recognize
Something's starting, but I don't know what it's called
I recognize
I am thrilled, and I am killed, and I'm enthralled
With my own two eyes
I can recognize anything at all
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You were lighter than a ghost train
Now you're rusted on the tracks
You were the spirit of the age
Now you're mislabelled in the stacks
You once taunted executioners
Now you're sharpening the axe
But I recognize you
Yes I recognize you
And I saw the twentieth century
Through nuclear family eyes
Now I'm rising from the radiation
Tried and traumatized
But I'm hoping as you crush me
For second, you get wise
And you recognize me
Yeah, you recognize
I recognize
Something's starting, but I don't know what it's called
I recognize
I am thrilled, and I am killed, and I'm enthralled
With my own two eyes
I can recognize anything at all
I recognize
Something's starting, but I don't know what it's called
I recognize
I am thrilled, and I am killed, and I'm enthralled
With my own two eyes
I can recognize anything at all
♪
You know my whispering
I know you're listening
And that you recognize yourself
In all our distancing
What we are witnessing
Is a kind of conditioning
Is all the dissonance
From all the songs we wished to sing