Orphans

Goodbye circus wheel May you rest along the sea I have given you the fire of my youth And the triumph o're my enemies Goodbye fair weather home, and your faithless factories I have given you the blood and the truth From the wounds they laid onto me And whatever they left, well, I kept it for my own heart And the lonesome all understand With the choirs in my head And we were orphans before We were ever the sons of regret My baby And on and on and on The alphabet boys carry on We were orphans before We were ever the sons of these songs And now my lights, they never go down They waltz the moon and stars for me now So you can find some local libertine To take your daughters out on the town And I can feel it in my aging bones How the sound of the rain mixes up Into the fountains where I drank my hero's blood So I left you to find my very own hat full of rain And the lonesome all understand With the choirs in my head And we were orphans before We were ever the sons of regret My baby And on and on and on The alphabet boys carry on We were orphans before We were ever the sons of these songs Now I'm trying to keep it straight Learning all the streets and the alleyways And learning where they lead Now that I'm left alone here to drive But it's so hard to stand on your own Against mirror of glass, hard and cold But the clothes I wore Just don't fit my soul anymore No the clothes I wore Just don't fit my soul anymore And the lonesome all understand With the choirs in my head And we were orphans before We were ever the sons of regret My baby And on and on and on The alphabet boys carry on We were orphans before We were ever the sons of these songs When we were young We were diamond Sinatras Like something I saw in a dream We kept our secrets in rooms Locked up tight like a tomb Where the ballerinas lay --- Orphans - The Gaslight Anthem