Nobody ever comes down here
The dust has collected for four hundred years
Dark rooms make the foundation of this house
Yeah, they were built by someone else
But all the contents are ours
Because we live here now

Old ships in bottles keep the score
Which one carried your ancestors and predestined your course?
Redacted pages, the record of our collective shame
Just names and names and names
Rubbed out of their early graves
Now ready fuel for the flames

The shadows (shadows)
Conceal the webs
Spun to hold captives (captives)
And bleed them to death
They still hang from every scaffold of american life
I’ve given them cover in the corners
Of my own mind
The shadows keep me blind
Time to flood this place with light

Nothing is new here under this sun
What’s illuminated takes the breath out of my lungs
I’ve been far too comfortable living in the lavish home
Built upon these bones
This edifice has to go
Once you know you can’t unknow

The shadows (shadows)
Conceal the webs
Spun to hold captives (captives)
And bleed them to death
They still hang from every scaffold of american life
I’ve given them cover in the corners
Of my own mind
The shadows keep me blind
My beating heart cannot abide it
I am so late to get right-sided
Time to flood this place with light
Time to flood this place with light