Lyrics Abigail Washburn

Abigail Washburn

Ballad Of Treason

This kiss is a crime

Let's not wast time

The cover of night is breaking

They even the score

We capture five more

Make a forbidden offering

Our heads are two stakes

Lets pull down the gates

Declaring freedom

Send out our armies

Bring death to our colonies

Our harmony drowns out the cries of our enemies

Climb up to a treetop I'll be on a mountain top

Looking for you across the valley

Birds pull you higher while the sky is on fire

Searching for the dying daylight

I need you, I need you, I need you

((Our bodies are pyres

Waiting for fire(

The judge and the generals

Claim jurisdiction

(The faithful assemble

The crowd starts to tremble(

The gavel it rises

And begins to fall((

Treason proclaimed

Pyres burst into flame(

Two souls ride the sparks

Into the blue

((Climb up to a treetop I'll be on a mountain top

Looking for you across the valley

Birds pull you higher while the sky is on fire

Searching for the dying daylight

I need you, I need you, I need you

((This world is a shackle

Let's shout til it rattles(

Bring down the walls of Jericho

Climb up to a treetop I'll be on a mountain top

Looking for you across the valley

Birds pull you higher while the sky is on fire

Searching for the dying daylight

I need you, I need you