"The Revival" lyrics

You probably have some picture in your head of the other side
Picturing the dread of a genocide
Better angels whispering instead of butterflies
Christening across borders

Power points you to just believe the very worst
Victims bleeding dead maybe they deserved it
Because opinions they listen to
They said they could understand the rage of the warriors

I see stones thrown, I leave 'em on the stage
Someone's home is blown apart, leaving grieving ones to pray
Leaders unafraid, preaching from the grave
Bear the brunt of most recent unbelievers, unrestrained

Meet anonymously speaking from estrangement
Tracers trace the haze, split the ozone, case for reparations
Wishing visions of the concentration camps receded from the frame
Foe's phone for negotiations
How could I be the one to say...

Our minds are our weapons
Our souls our protection
Our feet will never uproot
One body, one mind
We will all stand in line
Proclaim the once unspeakable truth

Seamless repairs to the damage we share
Underneath we are all flesh and blood
Slowly we rise with our voices entwined
The revival has only just
Begun
Begun
The revival has only just
Begun
Begun
The revival has only just

I've shuddered with the lives
On the limbs of dying trees trying to breathe
When the ice finds the tissue in between
Suddenly come to scream on the edge of disbelief
Calling scene when the curtains call to mask another me

Task is unbelieved, under siege
Waves of a foreign sea
Sovereignty under lock and key
Lost the plot and pottery
A part of me can't walk without my piece
Of the pie, of the prize
Nobel lottery slot machines

I'm a bandit without an arm sleeve
Pull some strings, I am an archer
And the hardest target
Artemis and Artemesia Geneleschi
Slits the arteries of misogynies

Kneel to the age of reason
Massage your knees, hard to breathe
While the art is harvested from fruiting tree
Stranger seeds and stranger danger full of anger
Anchored underneath underhanded fingered flagrantly

Manger migrant scenes but the babe is nowhere to be seen
But the babies die in Bethlehem to the sound of B.O.B, can I
Can I can I get a witness
Got a frame to paint a picture
Could I get a witness? (Could I get a witness?)

He was strange in features deranged and secretive
How else can I explain that the same isn't equal?
Yes, stay with us with the steeple chase
Pay what the people pay
Say what the weak will say
Praying that it will change
(Ooh, it will change, it will change)

Seamless repairs to the damage we share
Underneath we are all flesh and blood
Slowly we rise with our voices entwined
The revival has only just
Begun
Begun
The revival has only just
Begun
Begun
The revival has only just
Begun

Our minds are our weapons
Our souls our protection
Our feet will never uproot
One body, one mind
We will all stand in line
Proclaim the once unspeakable truth

Seamless repairs to the damage we share
Underneath we are all flesh and blood
Slowly we rise with our voices entwined

The revival has only just
Begun
Begun
The revival has only just
Begun
Begun
The revival has only just
Begun
Begun
Oooh
Begun
Yeah
Oooh, begun yeah

Only just begun (Only just begun)
Only just begun (Only just begun)
Only just begun (Only just begun)
Only just begun

Only just begun (Only just begun)
Only just begun
It's only just begun
Only just begun (Only just begun)

Only just begun (Only just begun)
Only just begun (Only just begun)
It's only just begun

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