Talon Songtext
von The Animal State

The desert spans the earth
Encompassing all I survey
A hunger drives me soaring through the barren jaundiced sky
No rain to quench my thirst
The rivers now so far and few
No thunder but the storm of fire and emptiness inside

I walk on the bed of an ocean
There′s no escape
I fly in the mouth of a dead wind
This bitter fate here
I sleep, in the dream forsaken
But I'm never letting go of this talon hold
I fall when the sun starts rising
And I might fade
I rise when the stars stop falling
My body waste away
I cling to the edge of the yawning
But I′m never letting go of this talon hold


I flew too close to the sun
I tried to touch the horizon
It was always just a step away my efforts were in vain
And now those wretched ones have gone
Consumed by their own vanity
Those reckless days have been and gone and never shall return

I walk on the bed of an ocean
There's no escape
I fly in the mouth of a dead wind
This bitter fate here
I sleep, in the dream forsaken
But I'm never letting go of this talon hold
I fall when the sun starts rising
And I might fade
I rise when the stars stop falling
My body waste away
I cling to the edge of the yawning
But I′m never letting go of this talon hold


I walk on the bed of an ocean
There′s no escape
I fly in the mouth of a dead wind
This bitter fate here
I sleep, in the dream forsaken
But I'm never letting go of this talon hold
I fall when the sun starts rising
And I might fade
I rise when the stars stop falling
My body waste away
I cling to the edge of the yawning
But I′m never letting go of this talon hold