Abandoned Palace - To Ghosts of Old Lyrics

She envies the birds overhead
How she longs to be free - soaring
Each failure a feather to seal her fate
Oh the crushing weight of indifference

Blind tendrils reach out to touch her
Like rising smoke blackens the air
And filters through locked doors to penetrate
Raise a monument to suffering

A sacrifice to ghosts of old

She watches the birds overhead
Black rippling wings - they're circling
Still reaping the sins of fathers
Oh exchanging violence for indifference

A foundation built on black feathers
Always mistaking pain for intimacy
She swears to the peeling walls
She'll never be a casualty of this city

Raze this monument

Raze this monument to human suffering
And exorcise the ghosts of old

A reflection of birds overhead
Like insects below - swarming
Helplessly navigating this
Labyrinth of oppressive indifference

Gathering her black feathers like leaves in the fall
Solitary ascent to touch the sun
She bids farewell to these peeling walls
Never to be a casualty of this city

Raze this monument

Among the birds overhead
How she longed to be free - soaring

Reflecting a red sky spreading over
The cold stone labyrinth immutable
Transcending the maze of indifference
Destined to be a casualty of this city

Another glorious sacrifice to ghosts of old