Youth Without Virtue

from Youth Without Virtue by The Sylvia Platters

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lyrics

It doesn’t hurt at all
Said the martyr on the wall
But every benediction
Is a chord without conviction

She’ll tell you all the ways
Some days ache more than others do
You know you can enlist her
To cauterize the picture

When the guilt starts getting the best of you
And your faithless friends are falling through
Listen to your sister
Take her word for scripture

Ooh

Any minute now the sound will come in
Clear and sweet and low
Breakdown at the matinee
Deathless white on a blackened page

Any second, any day
The veil will slip and float away
Pinwheel and ricochet
As you fold your hands and pretend to pray

Some may never swoon
At the altar of their youth
A fissure like a virtue
Embedded in the tissue

You hate the touch of silver
But you fasten it for you mother
Hum a sacred tune
To bury the wound inside of you

You’re never enough
You’re never alright
You kill what you love
It burns you alive

Distill what you want
You will what you need
You made me believe
You’ll make it in time
You’ll make it in time

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from Youth Without Virtue, released June 24, 2022

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Alex Kerc-Murchison, Stephen Carl O'Shea, Nick Ubels, & Tim Ubels.

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