Well if you're just tuning in,
there's breaking news across the wire.
It's havoc at the city desk
and all the papers, they're all on fire.

Every pen is like a spear now, 
and there's a spear in every hand I see
and while the color guard is marching on the playground
who will lay down an be quietly free.

Doesn't ever proud battlecry,
prove false upon the rifleman?
Isn't everyone a patriot,
until the cannonballs are falling in the yard?

Wade out into the sea of ink
between us
raising up on us all of the time
tracing out the lines of battlefields
between us
waging war on a long cursive line

But a poison in the inkwell
is a poison in the well.
A poison in the inkwell
is a poison in the well. 

Wade out into the sea of ink
between us
raising up on us all of the time
Tracing out the lines of battleships
between us
sailing off on a long cursive line.

But a poison in the inkwell
is a poison in the well.
A poison in the inkwell
is a poison in the well.

Ink

Thieving Seas