Brandi Carlile - Church & State

While the empire was failing I was so far from home I heard a thousand sirens wailing So I was never on my own And when the blackness slowly parted I saw the ivory towers Before the revolution started Between the madness of the hours And they don't see what we see We believe, we believe That they're not gonna live forever Burn tomorrow, never say They're here today, then they're gone forever Never say, never say, never say We'll find a way, we'll find a way We'll find a way, imagine if we could In the days that quickly followed They began to turn to stone They couldn't stand or speak or swallow They couldn't get out of bed alone And when the frailty overcomes them And they begin to crawl Reaching out their bloody hands Guess who gets to make the call? They don't see what we see We believe, we believe That they're not gonna live forever Burn tomorrow, never say They're here today, then they're gone forever Never say, never say, never say We'll find a way, we'll find a way We'll find a way, imagine if we could I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act Of the whole American people, which declared that Their legislature should make no law Respecting an establishment of religion Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof Thus building a wall of separation Between Church and State No, they're not gonna live forever Burn tomorrow, never say They're here today, then they're gone forever Never say, never say, never say We'll find a way, we'll find a way We'll find a way, imagine if we could