Turn Away
{ words & music by Simon Spire }
I dreamed I saw your face in another place
And all our words lit the sky
And on them we could fly
We found a burning light
And saw beyond any horizon we had ever known
And it had just begun
And all our chains lay shattered far behind, out of sight
*
Why’d we have to throw it away?
Why’d we have to throw it away?
Why’d we bust our way through the gates, just to turn away?
*
We saw a scarlet bird
And then a second and we soared as we watched them dance
Then – gasp –
They grew twice our size and, scared,
I pushed you safe behind
And wrestled with magnificence
And battled innocence
We fled and tripped and fell our way back down, to the ground
*
Why’d we have to throw it away?
Why’d we have to throw it away?
Why’d we bust our way through the gates, just to turn away?
*
Why’d we have to burn alive the only thing that ever shined?
*
I dreamed I saw a world
Where freedom rose above the shadows of our history
And all were listening
To stories of the chosen ones
And how it had begun
With throwing off the shackles then refusing to pretend
And all the walls to which we once had bowed, hit the ground
*
Why’d we have to throw it away?
Why’d we have to throw it away?
Why’d we bust our way through the gates, just to turn away?