Orchid - Strung Out

I am the future

I am metaphor for war

I take my medicine as I’m praying on all fours

We sit in fields of rust, Corinthian and time

I’m synthesis in motion, I am freedom and decline

Raise me to shine like an orchid from the cracks

Wash me aside when the levees finally break

In opposition we are never free

When our cause becomes our slavery

The poet and the warrior

The future or the way we were

Stand down rise up, we all know?

The secret to the life we chose

So we are

I am law to save me from who I am

I am love spent then reborn again

We are orchid torn away

All is forgiven when we pray

The poet and the warrior

The future or the way we were

Stand down rise up, we all know?

The secret to the life we chose

Stand down?

Rise up?

We all know

Stand down?

Rise up?

We all know