Two Gallants - Damnatio Memoriae lyrics

Well, it's just the fault of circumstance The game of youth, the threat of chance And I can't seem to find another way To justify my loss of words But some day, they say I'll be cured But be a**ured I'll always be this way And we all suffer guilt and shame In the frame of skin and bones Little one, you're not alone I think it's time you stepped out of the shade But who among your chosen ones? Am I to be so bold to the one who can't be told? No, don't believe a single thing I say But I recall that night right well You stood the streets while darkness fell Said you could tell I had something to say Well I tried to leave, but you said no That eventually we all must go So we search the town to find out why we stay But now the day's are growing thin And the leaves litter the streets And the fog infests my sheets And we're each too scared to even greet the day And all those resolutions unfulfilled, I'll soon repeat Can't escape my own deceit Oh I do intend to meet myself someday It sickens me to see you now With your pursed lips and your purchased crowd Spouting out self-evidence as proof But you are virtue, you are why Mothers weep and young men die For just the sight of the pyrite of your tombs But what shames me the most My dear, is the hate you left behind In the shadows of my mind And the cold outlines Where once you used to lay So I'll pour out this potting gla** And attempt to wash my hands Of what your memory demands No, I never planned for things to end this way