Cities of Asylum - Rome

They’ll drop us broken and bleeding

On the rocks and sand

Seems half the world is fleeing

And word gets around

What caused your heart to turn?

What made you want to burn

It all down with a lie?

I know you’ll feel the shout gagging your mouth with sound

This at least we must try

He who dares at all must dare it all

But now, hold me, I’m breaking

He who dares at all must dare all

He who dares at all must dare it all

But now, hold me, I’m breaking

He who dares at all must dare all

One must know when to take shelter, mother

And the time is now

One must know when to run for cover

And cheat death somehow

The patience of the knife surely won’t suffice

One lie burns all

As every inaccurate word is strewn of the surface

Brace for the fall

He who dares at all must dare it all

But now, hold me, I’m breaking

He who dares at all must dare all

He who dares at all must dare it all

But now, hold me, I’m breaking

He who dares at all must dare all

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

Hold me now, I am breaking

He who dares at all must dare it all

But now, hold me, I’m breaking

He who dares at all must dare all (Hold me, I’m breaking)

He who dares at all must dare it all

But now, hold me, I’m breaking

He who dares at all must dare all (Hold me, I’m breaking)

He who dares at all must dare it all

But now, hold me, I’m breaking

He who dares at all must dare all (Hold me, I’m breaking)

He who dares at all must dare it all

But now, hold me, I’m breaking

He who dares at all must dare all