New Academics - Rubicon Lyrics

You came quivering across the floor
A mass of folded skin and claws
Gingerly let me take hold of you
Such an awkward bag of bones
'Til you shot into your own
With my callow heart in swift pursuit

Oh, how the years they twist and bend your bones

Tender soul, yet beast of war
No surrender, tooth and claw
Goddess in a boy's mythology
But mortality's a fear
Neither warrior nor seer
May banish to shadows eternally

Savage compassion, lethal chemistry
Hold my eyes girl
Quietly drifting from reality
Leaving this shell

From bright bustling ball of flame
To a shuffling stiff-legged lame
Muscles failing in response to cues
'Til you could no longer stand
Without a pair of helping hands
Lending legs to your hypotenuse

Savage compassion, lethal chemistry
Hold my eyes girl
Quietly drifting from reality
Leaving this shell

Time marches jack-booted heels over mortal frames
Muscles strain against the tide in vain
Gravity, it comes to stake a claim
Winching masses beneath the soil, flesh tamed

All bodies are finite things
Starting, ending pieces of string
Prone to chafe and fray, threads come undone
There's a line hard to define
Between cruel and benign
Soiled by soles treading that Rubicon

Savage compassion, lethal chemistry
Hold my eyes girl
Quietly drifting from reality
Leaving this shell
Savage compassion, lethal chemistry
Hold my eyes girl
Quietly drifting from reality
Leaving this shell