CALIGULA'S HORSE LYRICS

1. The Tempest

You got your way, like lullabies
Is that the lie that you hoped for?
The closing fist and the butterfly
Tell me that's the way that you want it

Would you settle for a piece of enough?
A broken back to deliver,
When you carry your heart of gold and sell us all down the river

There's no saints save for the strength to stand,
For the rise of the righteous man
Let time be the witness, the riot, the rain

There's no saints
Only the thunder in skin, the frailty
There's no saints
We are the rising cascade, the rolling wave
There's no saints to save me

Want me to watch like mother's eyes?
I got your witness here for you
I see the first and the last to be mine,
Nothing more for my soul to magnify

I see the beauty in the bliss as it bleeds
I hear the thunder before me
And it wasn't a weight you gave me
Don't need no saint to save me

There's no saints save for the strength to stand,
For the rise of the righteous man
But we are the tempest, the rapture, the rage

There's no saints,
Only the storm and the sin, the beauty
There's no saints
We are the blood and the blame,
The stone, the same
There's no saints to save me

The sea, the storm was always you
The call of the cascade
I see no god in here but you,
The water, the cascade
And we could drown the world in truth, in concord
So dare I just let them set their fires?
They'll find no witness

I'll swear by no saints

2. Slow Violence

When the moment comes to light the lost and it's eyes on you,
Leaving us no legacy but residue
It's when you preach your promises like the filth was always there
Like we were always dead

If we could tread so lightly that the bait in my breath is done
Grind down, the grief gives way
Justify just another one
The mourning ends,
The maker mends,
And you feed it

And with your nothing words, stand by the lie, watch your saviour bleed
He said, "My son, they'll know you by the numbness in your knees"
If I could run the way your god conceals his gun

He'd know that for all your pride,
We're all buried by the same slow violence
I'll take you with me
We're all buried by the sure decay
You lied

So give us something more than the wretch,
Than the pose of the penitent
And with a rapture wracked, spit back the impact in the garden
It's your Judas kiss
The shots don't miss, and you know it

Call for a binding,
Blade to the boy,
And bite down until it's all done
Isn't this what you want?
The man, the pyre, the only son
If I could run the way your god conceals his gun

He'd know that for all your pride,
We're all buried by the same slow violence
I'll take you with me
We're all buried by the sure decay
You lied

So you can save your empty prayers for deaf ears
Keep your eyes front and listen, your sons are all singing Maria

And you can bleed your promises and leech your covenant,
But can't you hear it?
They're already singing Maria

For all your pride
For the lie that feeds the fire

For all your pride
We're all buried by the same slow violence
I'll take you with me
We're all buried by the sure decay
You lied

Maria
The way your god conceals his gun
Maria

3. Salt

Let me walk under weight like waves
And find the fool in the courage craved
I'll run into the house as it's burning
I can make it to the morning
So I'll find the revolution in a breath
Square one always felt like the start of something beautiful
I have been here before
I can stand in my body like I own it

So bring me my tomorrow
I swear by my sorrow, her hopeful hands to bear me
Bring me my tomorrow

Light my sins in the lens of fault
Let my edges blur as I stand like salt
This dead head vessel blind to the curtain
Let the siren sing certain
If I could be rid of this, I would in a breath
My words are a whisper
But at least I can call them mine
Call out the warning
More than a mantra
I can make it to the morning

So bring me my tomorrow
I swear by my sorrow, her hopeful hands to bear me
Bring me my tomorrow
I know every word
All this cold talk of redemption
But the night can't hold a candle to shadows that I can't overcome
It was always there
Growing louder yet
Give me sight in the silence
And god help me, give me sleep

This softness I'm waiting weightless for
With only one thing more to ask these fragile bones in the end

Was it gentle?
'Cause I need her to know
But tomorrow hangs like a promise
I can't keep it alone
But I'll meet you there

This softness I'm waiting weightless for
With only one thing more to ask these fragile bones

Stand, and bring me my tomorrow
Bring me my tomorrow
I swear by my sorrow, her hopeful hands to bear me
Bring me my tomorrow

More
More than the sum of scars
More than the rope's end
More
More than a call to arms
More than the harm
You're more
More than the damage done
More than the hopeless
More
More than the dawn
More than the end
More than a mantra
You

4. Resonate

Quiet
Letting the edges go
Would I lose the sight of myself in you?
Could I forget
Learn to forgive
And from that mountain view
Would I see myself anew?

Did the music die in the quiet?
Or did it give me room to resonate?
When I am hate
If I could resonate

Quiet
A moment's hope to lend
A sign of life, a second's silence to send
While ends over ends whisper their tired suicides down that rope again
Could I mend?

Did the music die in the quiet?
Or did it give me room to resonate?
When I am hate
If I could resonate

5. Oceanrise

Weaver, wait
Beg the illness
Plead for stillness where the mountain's made

Run, you always run
Like you need disaster
Was it fate you're after?

You run, you always run
Flee your fate to find it
Run
Precious nothing
There's no heaven here

There's your ocean rise
A legacy in living
A promise in an ending, triumphant
Your ocean rise
Setting sun

The desert cannot drown the water
Be the flood, be the ocean

Weave away
Standing still is for the fearless
You were learning to run

To burning lungs, death came as an ocean
One with her wild devotion
It's done
The fight was won
But foam and fury's in our blood
So run, just like you always run
The desert cannot drown the flood

It's your ocean rise
A legacy in living
A promise in an ending, triumphant
Your ocean rise
Setting sun
The desert cannot drown the water
Be the flood, be the ocean
We rise into the epitaph

An end to measure man
We rise
Here where the body shapes the mountain where you stand
The ocean rises alive

It's your ocean rise
A legacy in living
A promise in an ending, triumphant
Your ocean rise
Setting sun
The desert cannot drown the water
Be the flood, be the ocean

6. Valkyrie

Wait
You're holding your breath and not your ground
We're here again
With a head full of war
You need it to fill the fight in your hands

So scream at the wall
An echo calm spits back to say
"I will not falter"

Wait
Pacify, survive
Time's no symmetry
You rattle the cage
But to be still is not to be weak
And you'll never run until you've got the strength to be on unsteady feet

Collide
Breathe with me
Peace is not your enemy
Call for the Valkyrie

It's not impossible
It's just the end of your reach
This is not forever
Valkyrie
The song inside us all
This is it
You and me
We bleed impossible

It's alright
Can't you see the wonder in the wait?
It's never too late
It's alright now
Gravity is growth, we're not there yet
Can't you see the wonder in the waiting?
It's alright

Choose the way
Unafraid
And the wait hasn't even begun
Together we choose the way

Collide
Choose the way
You can fight for the quiet, the old war
Together we choose the way

Collide
Choose the way
The alive will strive to sever
Untethered, we choose the way

We're not there yet

Clinging to the weight of the world
To static, the martyr to pride
But you are the war
The spite and its author
You and I were born unready
To stumble, to see
Peace was never your enemy
Go on and call for the Valkyrie

It's not impossible
It's just the end of your reach
This is not forever
Valkyrie
The song inside us all
This is it
You and me
We bleed impossible

It's alright
Can't you see the wonder in the wait?
It's never too late
It's alright now
Gravity is growth, we're not there yet
Can't you see the wonder in the waiting?
It's alright

7. Autumn

You were leading us into autumn
You, the dream of the hopeful
You were here to stay
And you'll soon see that yours was the strong heart
From youth to open arms
Embrace all the change that was coming

And all we thought we knew for all of yesterday
We were only children
The way forward, through
All we thought we knew

You were dreamed by love into the world
Truth
For the last time I shed my skin and breathe in the colour

And all we thought we knew for all of yesterday
We were only human
The way forward, through
All we thought we knew

You
You were leading us into autumn
Ever forward
You
You were leading us into autumn
Ever forward
Before the change is through
Change is coming
When all I am is you
Leading time to river's toil as the hollow takes shape
Leading myth to mother soil
Being made and unmade

Change has always been this way
Change has always been this way

As light is ever sent over rubble to reign
The all will always end where the nothingness stays

Change was always on its way
Change has always been this way

Change, the mother
Nothing falls into stillness;
Time is the motion
Change, the mother
In the sum of our silence
Time waits for no one

So who am I to stay the colours as they change?
To call for silence in my pride
And bring stillness to sunrise?

You
You were leading us into autumn
Ever forward
You
You were leading us into autumn
Ever forward
Before the change is through
Change is coming
When all I am is you

You were leading us into autumn
Ever forward
You
You were leading us into autumn
Ever forward
And I will wait ahead
Change is coming
To stand and mark the way

8. The Ascent

This is the way that we hand control to gravity's grip
The way that it goes
Before we can rise we must be laid low

Bloodied, alive, I make it to my knees
Only to pray they won't forget me
Cast to the ground when I reached for the war

So climb

Rise in the rot and set the pace to stay
The heart is the way where the markers were laid
Higher again until we're leaving our own

We climb

The fight and the form
The ever forward, mine
Boot to the hold
One tread at a time
Hand over hand
The path as it winds

So climb

So rise radiant
You are the way
You were born to the ascent
So rise, my radiant

With my pride, bear your heart into the end of me
There is no death
I am with you, my darling
If I am breathing through you
Death only is to wake
With the face of our fathers below
And no fear to follow the way forward
Love

There is no pride
I am with you, my darling
This is your time
And so into your hands I leave all that I could not reach
You are the worlds colliding
The sail unfurls
We have all been building worlds

Forward
Like loss could colour cloud and distance edify
A farewell to sunrise
The decaying heartbeat of the sky
So as the hills drink deep
We watch survivors trace their old calligraphy in light

Forward
With all I took with me
A spite of my design
Too long the lesson
All it took to leave my hate to lie
What a privilege it is to watch the day's last colour die
Teaching us to climb

Forward now
Through

And into your hands I leave all that I could not reach
You are the worlds colliding
We built a world
Your sails unfurled
Forward now
Through
The way is forward
The fall will take form into ascent
You are the sun
Rise radiant
Become the light alive
The fight and the climb
The strife, the day
We are the sun
Rise radiant
My love the way forward
The fall will take form into ascent
You are the sun
Rise radiant
Become the light alive
The fight and the climb
The strife, the day
We are the sun
Rise radiant, my love

9. Don't Give Up

[originally by Peter Gabriel]

10. Message to My Girl

[originally by Split Enz]








CALIGULA'S HORSE LYRICS