Architects

Are there no fighters left here any more?

Are we the generation we've been waiting for?

Or are we patiently burning

Waiting to be saved?

Our heroes our icons

Have mellowed with age

Following rules

That they once disobeyed

They're now being led

When they used to lead the way

Do you still believe in all the things that you stood by before?

(That you stood by before)

Are you up and on the front lines

Or at home keeping score?

Do you care to be the layer of the bricks that seal your fate?

(The bricks that seal your fate)

Or would you rather be the architect of what we might create?

They laid out the blueprints, they poured down a base

Concrete solutions to slow our decay

And when they are gone

Who the fuck's gonna take their place?

Yeah, will it be the cynics, the critics galore?

Cliche apathetic passed out on the floor

The trusting complicit who collectively ignore

Do you still believe in all the things that you stood by before?

(That you stood by before)

Are you up and on the front lines?

Or at home keeping score?

Do you care to be the layer of the bricks that seal your fate?

(The bricks that seal your fate)

Or would you rather be the architect of what we might create?

Don't you remember when you were young

And you wanted to set the world on fire?

Somewhere deep down, I know you do

And don't you remember when we were young

And we wanted to set the world on fire?

Because I still am and I still do

Make no mistake we are not afraid

To bear the burden of repeating

What they're thinking anyway

Let's raise the stakes

On the bet we made

Let's decide to be the architects

The masters of our fate

Yeah, we still believe in all the things that we stood by before

(We stood by before)

And after everything we've seen here maybe even more

And I know we're not the only ones we were not the first

(We were not the first)

Unapologetically we'll stand behind each word