Please Stand Down

I don't see no savior here
So I tried to grow an olive tree
Your soil may be hard and mean
If you are tainted just come clean
Together we could change the Fates decree

I don't see no savior here
Maybe it's too late to change anything
I said, please stand down
Give up your weapons and your crowns
But they said somebody has got to be the king

I don't see no savior here
Just survivors, directionless and scared
And we're all clinging to these creeds
To justify our words and deeds
I hope someday our ravages can be repaired

All we've got are these small hands and these big thoughts
The people we have loved and lost and fought
The hopes we laid to rest, the dreams we sought
Give up your weapons and your crowns
Please stand down

You and Me

We walk in shadow, we walk in light
and what's to become of us?
There may not be another tomorrow or tonight
so why do we spend today on the same old fight?

The moon turns red, the sun grows weak
and it breaks our hearts
Can't look at what's looming above or what's beneath
So where do we turn when the earth shudders under our feet?

don't stop now, we've only just begun
don't stop now, we thought we were so young
but you and me, while we can sing and we can breathe
there's still time to believe in something
and I believe in you and me

We walk in shadow, we walk in light
and we risk it all
Within our fragile bodies beat the fiercest hearts
we fit the pieces together when the world falls apart

don't stop now, we've only just begun
don't stop now, we thought we were so young
but you and me, while we can sing and we can breathe
there's still time to believe in something
and I believe in you and me
I believe in you and me

Coal

Some people take their sorrow and wear it like a necklace
Of black coal, it gets all over their skin and clothes
Some people chew it up for breakfast
and it clings to their teeth, it stings and it shows

But I swallow it whole and when I get full
I press down, I press down
I make diamonds out of my coal, they're beautiful
I press down, I press down

Some people take their hurt and use it like ammunition
A pocket full of stones, throw one without looking
Where it lands, let it loose and someone else is down
Feel better with another body lying on the ground

But I swallow it whole and when I get full
I press down, I press down
I make diamonds out of my coal, they're beautiful
I press down, I press down

My hands are covered in old scars, cut all to ribbons
I find new ways to smile and hide them
When I'm tired, I take a deep breath and stand a bit straighter
I pretend, but I don't break and I don't bend, nothing can make me change

I swallow it whole and when I get full
I press down, I press down
I make diamonds out of my coal, they're beautiful
I press down, I press down