Downcast - From the Body Lyrics

I know when I play to you I raise the dead. I build fire from ash I build from rust.  I raise the dead. History music and empty things.  Promise unfulfilled.  Lipstick traces and castle walls.  Don't pretend we don't know what this means.  Is this a replay? A conjuring? Like a mourner like a hanger on.  A crow eating from the body of the dead.  History music and empty things. A promise unfulfilled.  Lipstick traces and castle walls.  Don't pretend we don't know what this is.   I eat from the body of the dead.  I survive from the body of the dead. And I know what I think about past isn't true.  A thousand hands in between what really happened.  Dead is dead and that was then and I'm alive and this is now.  The past is just the same as this is now.  The past is present.  It meant something.  It meant something just because it happened.  This means something because it's here.  This means something just because you're here.  Mia Zapata.  Sarah Kirsch.  Chris Hervey.  d. boone. Exploding Hearts.  Lou Reed.  Hold on to what they left us.  It's just for you.  It's your voice in the silence.  It's the sound in the void.