Rival Tides - Bread for Thieves Lyrics

The king is dead
Killed from a poisonous cup
Another prophet sings and the crowd erupts, "Hail the new king!"
And so, the story goes over and over again like a spinning wheel
Same old Achilles heel, but when will it end?

We waste all our time giving bread to thieves
A monument of reckoning
I will not let you slip through the seams
A monument of reckoning

Freedom wrapped in tourniquets
Infomercial congressmen
Buy your tickets, step right in to the funeral of common sense
Violence is our drug, if the ratings are low we shake it up
And I don't know about you, but I've had enough
I've had enough

Oh, but it's mania, all that we do to each other
Sister, brother

We waste all our time giving bread to thieves
A monument of reckoning
I will not let you slip through the seams
A monument of reckoning

I want to live in a world that's not so cold, so I question all that I've been told
Gotta use my body and my soul to change a whisper to a shout
At the end I know I'll see the light like a sea of a million candle eyes
Try to catch this flame before I die
Just one to place inside
When all is faded from my youth, well I hope I lived the truth
Love's the only truth

We waste all our time giving bread to thieves
A monument of reckoning
I will not let you slip through the seams
A monument of reckoning