The Felix Culpa - Because This Is How We Speak lyrics

I would say that we saw this coming If i thought it would change a thing But at some point, we all stop running Some finish the race while some save their strength And a day is coming soon when the banner of youth Will be dropped somewhere between Writing songs in our parents basement And basing our lives on what they mean So if this is the last time Leave it all under these lights We've played out our lives on these stages Just to be buried with pages of songs left unsung This is the last time Give us something to take home A last line to sing Cause these half empty gla**es With stress cracks and fractures Can only grow so weak Before they break and spill out a dead language That we've forgotten how to speak And this is the last time We'll all hang for the same crime We buried the axe in the walls of these old village halls Just to claim that we were there And this is the last time (better to sink than to yield Better to lay down the shield Better to claim what we can Than be surprised when it ends Better to guess where we're going The gla** house before the throwing Better to know when to run Then face what we all become) So raise, raise your gla** to the ones Who gave their youth So we could sing along And this is the last time You'll hear me apologize I'll be that rope that you tied 'round your wrist to remind you What idle hands have done And this is the last time