Lyrics

BABYLON

VERSE
Babylon, with your bold and foreign faces, draw upon the only dream I?ve ever known.
Did you think that you could take my father?s heart out of me when you took me out of his home?
Babylon, with your overflowing rivers, killed 500 of my father?s house today.
Bid me sing like I was free inside these shackles and you bid me to dance while bound in these chains.

PRE-CHORUS
But another sound rushes through my mind
With the hope in freedom?s trill
And the weight and the taste of your sweet sigh,
Like spring was coming on. Winter will be gone.

CHORUS
Take it back. Don?t give it away. Don?t offer up a sham for some sad delay. If you
Feel the sorrow welling up inside, just step aside. Let the music rise.
And spend your life with me, boy. You can start today.

VERSE
I saw the light that caused the depth inside the forest. I felt the color through my eyelids when we kissed.
If I?d found a tearless path wherewith to reach you I would still hope to hold you through all of this.
You saw the nest, I heard the hungry babies singing. You saw the leaves, I heard the wind begin to blow.
If you went blind and I went deaf where would that leave us except able to feel that much more of home,
Able to hope in home...

PRE-CHORUS
Another sound rushes through my mind with the hope in freedom?s trill
And the weight and the taste of your sweet sigh,
Like spring was coming on. Winter will be gone.

CHORUS
Take it back. Don?t give it away. Don?t offer up a sham for some sad delay. If you
Feel the sorrow welling up inside, just step aside. Let the music rise.
And spend your life with me, boy. You can start today.