Never Hollowed By The Stare

Subjects are thrown around the room
Looking for the ones that got away
A feeling of soft anticipation
Another confrontation I won’t make
But how do we do it?
We turned into something else entirely, we fake it
But I wanted it so desperately to be real

Run, run, holding on to some pieces that you left behind
Hope now, as I walk away, you’re the one that finds me out
Run from the only thing left that I hold close

While he’s letting you in
You’ve got the feeling you’ve been followed under your skin
It will be weighing on your shoulder, believe it

If I could express it in a different dialect or in a delicate way
I’d capture the phrases inside the cage beneath my chest
And keep it locked for days
I wanted you so desperately to believe me

Run, run, why are you running from another conversation?
Someone that I’ve been planning on, you’re the one that finds me out
There’s nowhere, now I found you, that I won’t go

While he’s letting you in
You’ve got the feeling you’ve been followed under your skin
It will be weighing on your shoulder
You’ve got that seed in you
You’ve got that seed in you

Run, run, what are you running from?
Let all your small steps expose your secrets
You don’t have to speak for me to believe it
But what do you mean? Yeah…

Shaken and faint, you’ve got the feeling
You’ve been followed under your skin
It will be weighing on your shoulder
You’ve got that seed in you
You’ve got that seed in…
While letting you in
You’ve got the feeling you’ve been followed
Are you listening to anything I’ve said, said
To anything I’ve said, said
You’ve got that seed in you

Shaken and faint, it was the hardest thing to swallow
Pretending you don’t miss me
You’ve got that seed in you
You’ve got that seed in…
While letting you in, I’ll be thinking about tomorrow
And every time we cross those lines
You’ve got that seed in you
You’ve got that seed in…

I hope now, as I walk away, you’re the one that finds me out

I remember the first words that you ever said
Burried soft like seeds deep in my chest
I wanna know who you are
I wanna know who you are

Your hands like winter, eyes like wings
And the first kiss cut like ice in the spring
I wanna know who you are
I sleep deep in the dark

So come and take it all, leave a note for the world
I’ll be back from the sky
When the red earth cries for the girls
Stumble into love like a challenge above
But I ache with the fear that my fate is to yell and to yearn

White roses at the front door
Our legs intertwined when it rains on the porch
I wanna know who you are
I hunt for blood like a shark

So I’m running back to the lock of your arms
Baby, you know I never hit the mark
I wanna know who you are
‘Cause you’re the reason I’ve got so far

I leave it up to all the will that lives inside me
But I’d kill to keep you here right next to me
There’s something in the way I’m lifted
When I hear your name there’s nothing
That can touch what you have made

A liar of the sharpest tongue
We can’t be something we’re not
I’ve met with the winged things baying
And they feed off the winter lurking in your mind
I can see it in your eyes
I just want you to get out
I just want you to get out

But once you were
Beautiful enough to bear seeds of gold
I didn’t sow much
You would hold me and I would stare
A pillar of salt whisked away by the air
Beautiful right from the start
I loved your soul enough to leave in the cold

Just when I think that I’ll be safer out here
By picking up the pace, covering ground
Something is looming wicked in these clouds
And calling me back
Where will I run when all these winged things circle over my head?
When you’re young in the wild
Living in denial
You’ll never survive

I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know
If it’s your voice that dissolves on the brittle light
You supplicate from the place I dare not tread
And ask me to lay myself bare
But you are dressed in night and snow

Beautiful enough to bear seeds of gold
I didn’t sow much
You would hold me and I would stare
A pillar of salt whisked away by the air
Beautiful right from the start
I loved your soul enough to leave in the cold

(Into the cold and I’ll go)
Into the shroud
(Into the cold and I’ll go)
Into the shroud
(Now that I know we’re one in the same)
Into the shroud

‘Cause you’re young in the wild
Living in denial
You’ll never survive
(Now that I know we’re one in the same)

(Into the shroud)
So young in the wild
Living in denial