Terremoto (new lyrics written throughout 2011 and 2012)

I'm not trying anymore
It doesn't really matter
The dream of feeling anything has hit the floor and shattered
The saintly mess you see before you just as it was sold
Manipulating everything until it looks like gold
It shines like the original but I can tell it's fake
It takes more than a forgery to make the world shake


There are New Messiahs
New Disciples
Gods with rotating limbs that never judge our character but listen to our sins
And pat us on our pretty heads for doing as we should
Even though we'd turn around and nail them if we could and call it all a blessing instead of a mistake
It takes more than forgiveness to make the world shake

I'm leaning on the bedside table trying not to fall
I'm trying to compare this thing to anything at all
Whiskey song and cigarettes (and clearly nothing more) to keep my soul at ease
Until you stumble through the door to give me more of everything than I could ever take
It takes more than compassion to make the world shake

We take another walk together underneath the stars
We end up trading horror stories
Showing off our scars
You raise a glass to our misfortune
Cry and cry and cry
You spend another night with me an call it a goodbye
And shuffle back to paradise to charm another snake
It takes more than a miracle to make the world shake