The Oh Hellos - Passerine (Lyrics)

Lyrics: like carillon bells, the house of Augustus rings with the echoing hymn of my fellow passerine, they took to it like a fox to a burrow, like an eagle to an aerie and my god, it's getting hard to even hum a single thing you were the song that I'd always sing you were the light that the fire would bring but I can't shake this feeling that I was only pushing the spear into your side again see, my birds of a kind, they more and more are looking like centurions than any little messiah and as I prune my feathers like leaves from a vine I find that we have fewer and fewer in kind, but my palms and fingers still reek of gasoline from throwing fuel to the fire of that Greco-Roman dream purifying the holy rock to melt the gilded seams it don't bring me relief, no it don't bring me nothing that when he comes a knocking at my door what am I to do, oh lord when the cold wind rolls in from the north what am I to do, oh lord