Salt the Ground Lyrics

Can you fault an explanation

Of a hallowed consecration

Mothers fighting demons

For their kids

Future minor alterations

To avoid an altercation

Watch the men in suits open

Up their bids

Misty eyes down mirrored halls

Young wives waiting for the call

Or a reassuring letter home

Can we begrudge them their vices

All too late to realize that

They'll be left there waiting

All alone

Salt the ground

For your children

For your sister

For the fire we do not expect to survive

Salt the ground

For your mother

For your father

For the the hope of ever getting out alive

In our hearts we all are vagrants

Perched on careful prearrangements

We are daughters handed

To the groom

In the sky we seek our savior

Always on our best behavior

Reaching absolution in the

Face of doom

We will march and we will carry

All the things that we are wary of

This fighting can't go on much

Longer now

Tensions in the air are rising

People swaying, people lying

At the end we wonder if we

Kept our vows