Orphan
Silent Planet
[Verse 1: Garrett Russell]
Respective perspectives worshiping directives
Blindly killing for our dogma [1] until our sons meet in the garden [2]
Torches scald the night sky
The youth rise up and set their elders to the gallows [3]
Fire in the lighthouse
All our advances, a spark away from conflagration

[Interlude: Garrett Russell]
In the night, I saw you fall, oh, wicked star [4]
Illuminate our hate, show us who we really are

[Verse 2: Garrett Russell]
Books were burned away
Only swords remained [5]
The prophets died for peace
Stabbed by preying priests
As the wise man said
"I'll keep my heart and lose my head" [6]
Without a neck how can I sink
With a millstone to the bottom of the sea? [7]
The bottom of the sea
And I'm finding the violence, it looks like me
[Chorus: Thomas Freckleton & Garrett Russell]
Singing songs of life
When all we know is death [8]
A world of orphans [9]
Left empty-handed
If love's a sin, I'll become a heretic

[Verse 3: Garrett Russell]
Recurring intervention [10]
Framing the narrative to cleanse our tainted conscience [11]
Harvesting destruction
Reaping the sow from weapons planted in the soil [12]

[Bridge: Garrett Russell]
Terrified little son
Encumbered by your sword
You can hide your fear but won't shed the sheer
Weight of your own humanity, humanity
You can face me towards the mountains [13] where I meet our mother's gaze [14]
Too blinded by this hatred to recognize your brother's face [15]

[Chorus: Thomas Freckleton]
Singing songs of life
When all we know is death
A world of orphans
Left empty-handed
[Outro: Garrett Russell]
I'll collapse, head parting from my weary shoulders
Seeds of life spilling from my palms [16]
Subverting love [17] will take hold in this hateful soil
My blood is the water
Inshallah, Shalom
Love will take hold [18]
Write the lyrics for a rock song made in 2016, titled "Orphan", by artist "Silent Planet".