Lyrics Ballad of Treason - Abigail Washburn

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