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The Foundations Of Decay Lyrics
See the man who stands upon the hill
He dreams of all the battles won
But fate had left its scars upon his face
With all the damage they had done
And so with time, with age
He turns the page
Let the flesh
Submit itself to gravity
Let our bodies lay
While our hearts will stay
Let our blood and pain
The forgotten pain
Now, if your convictions were a passing phase
May our ashes feed the river in the morning rays
And as the vermin crawls
We lay in the foundations of decay
He was there, the day the towers fell
And so he wandered down the road
And we would all build towers of our own
Only to watch the rooms corrode
But it's much too late
You're in the race
So we'll press
And press 'til you can't take it anymore
Let our bodies lay
While our hearts will stay
Let our blood and pain
The forgotten pain
And if by his own hand his spirit flies
Take his body as a relic
To be canonized
And so he gets to die a saint
But she will always be the whore
Let's flip out
Against fate ([?] yellow)
Against all life (As if it must be pure)
Against change (Wander through the ruins)
We are free (Fifteen years ago)
You must fix your heart
And you must build an altar where it was
When the storm decays at this dying rate
Let it flood
Let it flood
Let it wash away
At last, we'll stumble through the last crusade
When you welcome your extinction in the morning rays
And as the swarming calls to lay in the foundations
Yes, it comforts me much more
Yes, it comforts me much more
To lay in the foundations of decay
Give up killing
He dreams of all the battles won
But fate had left its scars upon his face
With all the damage they had done
And so with time, with age
He turns the page
Let the flesh
Submit itself to gravity
While our hearts will stay
Let our blood and pain
The forgotten pain
Now, if your convictions were a passing phase
May our ashes feed the river in the morning rays
And as the vermin crawls
We lay in the foundations of decay
And so he wandered down the road
And we would all build towers of our own
Only to watch the rooms corrode
But it's much too late
You're in the race
So we'll press
And press 'til you can't take it anymore
While our hearts will stay
Let our blood and pain
The forgotten pain
And if by his own hand his spirit flies
Take his body as a relic
To be canonized
And so he gets to die a saint
But she will always be the whore
Against fate ([?] yellow)
Against all life (As if it must be pure)
Against change (Wander through the ruins)
We are free (Fifteen years ago)
And you must build an altar where it was
When the storm decays at this dying rate
Let it flood
Let it flood
Let it wash away
At last, we'll stumble through the last crusade
When you welcome your extinction in the morning rays
And as the swarming calls to lay in the foundations
Yes, it comforts me much more
To lay in the foundations of decay
Give up killing
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Sonically, it draws from a similar dark rock vibe as the band’s 2004 classic hit song 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge'. Theme wise, I think this is about the hopelessness & derailment of human psyche in the wake of all that continues to go on with the world as of late. Furthermore it encapsulates the zeitgeist, most heavily downtrodden in spirit & bereft of faith.
Hshss
[Edit: Changed mind]
[Edit: No reason]
Who remembers where they were when they first heard MCR and where they were when this sog dropped?
Me personally I was walking to the busses and my best friend jammed an earbud in my ear and it was teenagers, my addiction soon got 300x worse and yeah
As for this song in particular I was on youtube giving MCR more views and got a notification about MCR dropping a new video and was like oh great another promotional video for hipdot or something, clicked on it thinking it would be some spokesperson speaking, then I heard "see the man who stands upon the hill" and lost my shit