House Lyrics - Marillion

This house aches 

I whistle it's tune 

After so much noise 

Freedom is silence 

Half the house is missing 

Taken half of me with it 

I had imagined this 

Hurting in a different way 

Hurting in a different way 

I still have the hi-fi 

Quiet at all volumes 

As my dull thoughts 

Echo viscous and slow like the tolling of some great bell under water 

When she cries she cuts me 

And when she smiles I want to die 

Afraid of knowing myself 

Our eyes stare out while we hide inside 

Looking at it, not seeing it 

Looking at it, not seeing it 

The open windows 

Let in the spring air today 

And the birds sing their thankfully happy, brainless song 

But the silence here finds a way to stay 

Some kind of explosion 

God, if you hear me 

Throw me a line or strike me down 

Do you refuse even to accuse 

c'mon, do your worst 

But lift this curse 

Built this house on solid ground 

But now it's crumbling tumbling down 

Will nobody here even cry out for help? 

As it slowly collapses into itself 

Looking at it, not seeing it 

Looking at it, not seeing it 

Hanging on to this pain 

It's no good 

It's no good 

But we try again 

We try again