SURRENDER Lyrics

Oh, I'm a slut to my city of steel and grime

I make myself pretty with wasted time

I see my friends, their dreams are dead

We take the city subway like a bullet to our heads

But lately I was alone on a mountainside

The silence was nigh all around

And it swept me up and it let me down

And all my little violences surrendered to the sound

Oh, they say

Surrender, surrender, surrender surrender

Surrender, surrender, surrender, surrender

Oh, and I danced with the devil and he begged me

To slaughter every woman that I was for a quarter century

But I can't return, I can only look back

At all the ruin I was and the grace that I lacked

And I'll swallow my sorrow and drop my sword

They medicated me last week, and I was scared but I said sure

I can't resist it anymore, I don't want to fight like before

But I've built me a home and I don't want to go

So I was so high at the stadium

When we sang along to the band

And it played us in and it played us out

And all our little violences surrendered to the sound

And they said,

Surrender, surrender, surrender surrender

Surrender, surrender, surrender, surrender

Surrender, surrender, surrender surrender

Surrender, surrender, surrender, surrender

I pray my rage is a fire that wipes me clean, and

My sorrow's a tsunami submarine

And my heart is a bunker while my hurt is a hurricane, and

The land's in wreckage but I know I can love again

My rage is a fire that wipes me clean, and

My sorrow's a tsunami submarine

And my heart is a bunker while my hurt is a hurricane, and

The land's in wreckage but I know I can love again

Oh, I was alone by a waterfall

I knew I could jump and be dead

My face all white while my neck's all red

'Cause your love was the last thing that shot through my head

Oh, I was alone on the lakeshore

My sorrows were over and drowned

I saw the light shining through the clouds

And all my little violences surrendered to my sound