"Peace to the Mountain"

Album Art.

**"Peace to the Mountain"** is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the tenth track on their 2015 album *The Color Before the Sun*. A demo version of the song was released on *The Color Before the Sun* (Big Beige / 4th Street Demos) album and on the *The Color Before the Sun*: Deconstructed album.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

I learned to keep quiet

How to keep my distance

Afraid to let strangers in

How to keep my secrets

Did I ever have an idea of what this should have been?

An unhappy accident longing for an origin

**[Pre-Chorus]**

So let me go

Where no one can follow

Lost with my conscience

Please bury me honest

The song drones

I drink myself hollow

Regrets grow regardless

Please bury me honest

**[Chorus]**

I promise I'll go in peace

I promise I'll go in peace

When I'm free

*(Get off the island*

*Get off the island)*

**[Verse 2]**

Rejected to the brink

Only so much I can change, an artist I wish I could've made

Am I irrelevant?

Or will I get a chance to change, change the colors permanent?

**[Pre-Chorus]**

So let me go

Where no one can follow

Lost with my conscience

Please bury me honest

The song drones

I drink myself hollow

Regrets grow regardless

Please, please baby bury me

**[Chorus]**

I promise I'll go in peace

I promise I'll go in peace

When I'm free

**[Bridge]**

Peace to the mountain

Girl, I’m gonna go go

Peace to the mountain

Girl, I’m gonna go go

Peace to the mountain

Girl, I’m gonna go go

Peace to the mountain

Girl, I’m gonna go go

**[Pre-Chorus]**

So let me go

Where no one can follow

Lost with my conscience

Please bury me honest

The song drones

I drink myself hollow

Regrets grow regardless

Please bury me honest

**[Chorus]**

I promise I'll go in peace

I promise I'll go in peace

**[Outro]**

Peace to the mountain

Girl, I’m gonna go go

Peace to the mountain

Girl, I’m gonna go go

Peace to the mountain

Girl, I’m gonna go go

Peace to the mountain

Girl, I’m gonna go go

## Background

Sanchez said, "This song is the resolve. It’s coming to accept everything. At the time I wrote it we were returning back to the country, and it was like we’d come full circle. We’d left and experienced everything that we could, and then we went back to the peace and quiet of the mountain. And that’s pretty much it. This song is really a recount of my personality and who I am, and my obsessions with time and death, and I think it all resonates pretty well in the song. I think about the present and the future all the time, and I’m very excited about this record coming out. But I’m also looking even further ahead, too, and maybe there’ll be a moment like this again where it’ll call for the songs to speak for themselves. Or maybe I’ll decide to go back to The Amory Wars. I do very much love science-fiction fantasy and that whole conceptual world. Only time can really tell where I’ll land when it comes the next Coheed record, but I’m open to both sides. And right now I’m just really excited to play all of the new songs from The Color Before the Sun live."

## References

1. ↑ https://genius.com/Coheed-and-cambria-peace-to-the-mountain-lyrics
2. ↑ http://teamrock.com/feature/2015-10-08/why-isn-t-coheed-and-cambria-s-new-album-about-space