The Swinging Weight

Verse 1

Pulse

Pounding blood

Sinking deep in red mud

Heavy heads will always bow down

Nothing stays fixed inside this ghost town

The clock

It ticks

Stone by stone

Broken bricks

Chorus

Everything falls apart

Everything starts again

The curve goes up

The curve goes down

The king is losing his heavy crown

Watch it rise

Watch it fall

The law of rhythm claims us all

Verse 2

Skin

Tightening fast

Beauty simply cannot last

Petals dropping off a black rose

That is just how the current flows

Peak

Valley

Low

High

We are born just to die

Iron turns to orange flakes

Built on all of our mistakes

Chorus

Everything falls apart

Everything starts again

The curve goes up

The curve goes down

The king is losing his heavy crown

Watch it rise

Watch it fall

The law of rhythm claims us all

Bridge

The center cannot hold

The center will not hold

The center does not hold

Swinging back

Swinging forth

East becomes the freezing north

The tide comes in

The tide goes out

I scream

I shout

I leave

Chorus

Everything falls apart

Everything starts again

The curve goes up

The curve goes down

The king is losing his heavy crown

Watch it rise

Watch it fall

The law of rhythm claims us all

Outro

Reaching the top

Sliding away

Fading today

Going

Gone

Back to the dawn