Текст песни It's a Plague, and You're Invited (Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)) с переводом

All of this time I should have known

But we buried our hopes in our throats

And though it spared us from honesty

It could not deny anything else

After the air cleared

And the anger left our bodies

We slept more soundly

We slept more soundly!

On Denton

Where you realized the full weight of what you had done

You felt ashamed for the first time

But still refused to admit that you were wrong!

I swore I would not carry your weight for you anymore

When, at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself

But in the time you were making up your mind

We still held our breath (We still held our breath)

So history repeats, and the feeling that I will one day wake

An old and empty man only drives me harder

Even if you will not sacrifice your youth

It will grow to resent you like a body of water

It will yield only to entrenched earth

I swore I would not carry your weight for you anymore

When, at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself

But in the time you were making up your mind

We already knew (We already knew)

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