Semi-Precious Stone - Wolf Parade

Semi-precious stone for Cassandra

Semi-precious stone for your drugs

Semi-precious stone for science

Semi-precious stone for your kiss

But I am standing on a pile of diamonds

That I would like to submit

For your totem poles

For every time we hated the police

Or had to get out of the city to get free

A semi-precious stone, semi-precious stone

For every thumb we ran along the crease

I am standing on a pile of diamonds

That i would like to submit

And lover, it was so windy

The night was filled with furious trees

The streets were strewn with broken branches

Oh, save me from this conspiring breeze

This is the sound

This is the sound

This is the sound

This is the sound

This is the sound

This is the sound

Of the sky foaming at the mouth

This is the sound that I choose to make, now

This is the sound that I choose to make

Surrounded with tools and

No longer suitable for carving faces

Swinging down

Through the air

Like a branch

Through the air

Until my basic human bones

Are like a hammer

Like a hammer on a semi-precious stone

This is the sound

This is the sound

This is the sound

This is the sound

This is the sound

This is the sound

Of the sky foaming at the mouth

So hey, you can keep Cassandra

And you can keep your kiss

You should save your energy

For the new apocalypse