BROKEN LADDER

(album: VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN - 2021)

You exclaimed your proclamations
But they fell on crowded ears
With everybody clamoring from contact
And extinction pollinating all their fears

Wasted entertainment
City boy becomes a city rat
There's a mothlight in a bottle of ammonia
And we're selling tickets just to see how they react

You can stand above me looking down
But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder
And I would trade my place with you in hell
'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter

You can stand above me looking down
But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder
And I would trade my place with you in hell
'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter

You exclaimed your proclamations
Pour another drink
When the cynicism outweighs the pollution
Then it always feels encouraging to sink

Patterns are contagions
Princesses and crooks
First we're grazing in the sunshine
Then we're hanging by a hook

You can stand above me looking down
But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder
And I would trade my place with you in hell
'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter

You can stand above me looking down
But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder
And I would trade my place with you in hell
'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter

You can stand above me looking down
But I can see from here it's just a broken ladder
And I would trade my place with you in hell
'Cause I can say for sure it doesn't even matter