The Far Pavilions

(album: The Century Of Self - 2009)

New horizons, unclaimed land
Await us beyond the walls of our cantonment
I'll return
To the Far Pavilions
You can't let it get you down
You were raised on the edge of this unnamed ghost town
I'll return
To the Far Pavilions
There, a million
Far pavilions

Gaze down from up on their heights
Where their eyes, full of wonder, wait to greet you
And as you climb, feel the world you know divided up
Above and below

Let the roads lead you back
To those places you lived, brick fields full of cut glass
I'll return
To the Far Pavilions
Where the sidewalks strangled you
As you cradled your friend as he died from a gun wound
I'll return
To the Far Pavilions
Past love and hatred
Lies our greatness

Gaze down from up on their heights
Where their eyes, full of wonder, wait to greet you
And as you climb, feel the world you know divided up
Above and below

Gaze down from up on their heights
Where their eyes, full of wonder, wait to greet you
And as you climb, feel the world you know divided up
Above and below

Above and below
'Cause I will return
I may come