I've seen good men spoil,. Chained to their jobs like hounds. They work and sleep and work again. In their darkest nights, they howl. Their cries are a warning.
I will drown for you. Sink to black from blue. And let the water win. Wear you 'round my waist. Hold your heart like a weight. Open my lungs to let you in.
Tear it down,. Tear it down around my head. I need you. To bury this beneath my bed.. The crows in the garden. Are laughing at my expense,. Drowning out all the lies.
You built your kingdom around me.. Now I'm trapped within your walls,. When all I want is to be free.. For as winsome as you may be,. All you're doing now is losing me..
There's blood in the water. There's blood in the water. The quiet are restless. The silent are still. . I'm nobody's daughter. I'm nobody's daughter. My enemies crow.
I feel the mountains. I feel the mountains shifting under me. The sleeping giants. Are finally waking, waking finally. . My pulse is clear, rushing in my ears.
Steady, steady.. You know when you're ready.. It's a long road walking into the sun.. The heat can make you lose your head,. Your sense of direction..
Red sky morning, lover's warning. Oh I know that the promise you wear, well it ain't for me.. Shallow river shining within her. Flood it all, drown the crops, but just please don't swallow me..
A mountain song chills my warm skin,. A ballad of a lonesome peak.. I curse the ground, shed my old sins,. For weight will only make me weak.. . I beg the stars to marry me,.
I hear a rumblin' honey, up on the peak.. This wild weather's got the mountain shakin' weak.. I hear a rumblin' honey, up on the peak.. This wild weather's got the mountain shakin' weak..
Watch me give up,. Honey, watch me give up. I swore I never would. But we've been wishing upon ourselves. Things that I forgot. I cannot do. . Where does your faith form.
I once loved a man. Who was all lips and hands,. Cracked lips and hands,. Calloused hands.. I still feel his touch. Against my skin;. Past loves linger like.
Marrow made a wife of Eve,. But no one gave up a rib for me and mine.. And my heart stayed exposed to the elements,. Calloused and untouched by a man's design.
Out of the ocean,. Over the harbor. Led no sons and. Led no daughters. Among the Mountains of Everlong. 'Twas there I wrote me a sad, sad song.. . And if my lover will not hear it,.
I tried it your way,. You tried it mine,. The white flags still aren't waving. This ain't the good fight. I'm putting my foot down. Weak knees and all.
Happy is the man. Who wants for nothing.. Happy is the liar.. Happiness is itself desire,. So long as the fire can be. Contained. . Do you ever want nothing at all?.
Come my dear and be a part of my home. Missing stitch and flowers on a headstone. And I will crawl like a sinner to be at your feet. Should God or the devil ever ask for me..
I want to stand on the edge of the water. And see horizons stretch on forever. I want to know that there are lands. Not yet touched by human hands. I want to be the one.
Oh, turn your lamps down low,. Keep the light so dim that you can't see. What's out there ahead of you.. My dear, there are secrets here--. I will carry them home,.
Orange, yellow, green. It's all the same to me. I've seen them all a million times before. And I have half a mind. To climb up to the sky. And steal new colors away from the sun.