Imperial Teen - The Hibernates lyrics

The war machine was waxed and cleaned But the wolves they trained were slow No matter the shine and no matter the gleam The wheels just spun in the snow The best marine had been blessed by the queen With a badge for the best in show But the bronze turned green as he lost his steam While the ebb trickled down to a flow The trees weren't green but the frost turned to stream As the carbon melts the snow The ash fell free as the blackbird screams At the hibernates below You're breaking up, you're broken What's said remains unspoken To have a vice is always nice A parcel or a token The ice had thawed by the grace of god And we asked, please sir, for more No, he said, see I'm better off dead And we've been through this before So we took to land, did it all by hand As we carved through the melt of the snow The mold that grew knew what to do For the hibernates below You're breaking up, you're broken What's said remains unspoken To have a vice is always nice A parcel or a token (x4)