Birds don't sing, they crush my skull And I am worthless And the heights of what I stand up to Are not in you And I can't get no words With no feelings
Nothing is new here underneath the sun All of the big new charlatans will sneer at us Barely a flicker of the light to come Only the people who always
Rise, rise, rise, fly above your head Cups are running over, voices out of breath Time, time, time, and time's have come again Part another red-eye sea
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When you know it's the last dance When you'd catch up but you can't In this circle where I stay You at just a reach away and When it tries to flicker
First born, grace begins More bones, more skin Veins surround me like a nest Tie me in, first caress Home A womb to grow human in A world to grow human
Shaking like a leaf Afraid to lift my eyes Afraid of all Your glory Ashamed of all my pride Then You call me in To Your holy place I fall down Down on
Have I become, a target that some people can't resist? My flaws have become a greater risk If my name, is a synonym to love and happiness Then why am
Well I'm watchin' Geraldo on TV And I'm thinkin' about you and me, about you and me But you talk too much, you say too little You think too hard, you
found a moth sleeping in the folds of your dress. burnt out because he turned out such a mess. he'd caught sight of a light that called his name. caught
I watch, you wait At the bus stop with one eye On your watch You turn and say To strangers there's not enough time For one man in one life Just a flicker
You always say That I get it too late Or not at all So then it shouldn't seem so strange That I would sing you a love song now Because I feel like I'm
Well the sun won't ever shine Not like it used to do And there will be moonlight in the sky Won't mean a thing to you Friends and relations say you've
We met in Montreal far from the crowd Moving in circles running with so little time We sat and we talked about rumors and lies Stayed till the sun hit
I sing this song For the frogs In my head Cause they're always there Singing Singing
I've got my reasons for holding back Can't give my trust too fast I've pulled myself out of the wreck Too many times To think that words can last
They broke off the locks and they opened the doors Pushed out the windows and painted the floors Raised up the roof 'till it touched the sky Grew a little
Well I love these nervous breakdowns And I love these new skins And I love that you were brave enough To sleep with all my friends And I love these