Shannon Wright is an American singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.
Wright moved from New York City to Chapel Hill, NC after her first band Crowsdell called it quits. While in Chapel Hill, Wright started experimenting and writing solo songs with a borrowed four-track recorder. Wright, known for her "do-it-yourself punk aesthetic", received much encouragement from friends to continue making records, even though she had considered quitting. So, when a friend gave one of her four-track recordings to someone at Touch and Go/Quarterstick Records, and they offered to release her first solo record, she decided to continue her musical career on her own. After, the release of the 7" A tin crown for the social bash on Overcoat Records, Wright signed with Touch and Go/Quarterstick, to which she remains signed today.
After moving from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, Wright began working on her first release on Touch and Go called FlightSafety. This album received critic acclaim for Wright's intriguing lyrics and songwriting abilities. FlightSafety consists of simple guitar and piano chord progressions with striking vocal melodies. Wright plays almost all the instruments on this release and all other releases following FlightSafety.
Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a musician from France. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks with a distinctive sound that is always involved. It can be recognized by its use of a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter.
Tiersen is often mistaken as a composer of soundtracks, himself saying "I'm not a composer and I really don't have a classical background", but his real focus is on touring and studio albums which just happen to often be suitable for film. His most famous soundtrack for the film Amélie was primarily made up of tracks taken from his first two studio albums.
Yann Tiersen was born in Brest in the Finistère département in Brittany in northwestern France, in 1970, into a family of Belgian and Norwegian origins. He started learning piano at the age of four, violin at the age of six, and received classical training at several musical academies, including those in Rennes, Nantes, and Boulogne. In the early 1980s when he was a teenager he was influenced by the punk subculture, and bands like The Stooges and Joy Division. In 1983, at the age of 13, he broke his violin, bought an electric guitar, and formed a rock band. Tiersen was now living in Rennes, and this turned out to be the perfect place for his musical career. In fact, Rennes is home to the three-day music festival Rencontres Trans Musicales, held annually in December, giving him the opportunity to see acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, and Suicide. A few years later, when his band broke up, Tiersen bought a cheap mixing desk, an 8-track reel-to-reel audio tape recording, and started recording music solo with a synthesizer, a sampler, and a drum machine.
( Instrumental )
There's the palest shape
Steady your weeping face
Put the pillow to your cheek
For i'm failing in your eyes
This funeral lies inside
My mourning head
Why is this delight
Excused as nothing?
Is this the vigor
A vast decay?
This ugly state
I shall not answer
This nausea
I delve to slain
This only takes one moment
Could you explain your meaning
This majesty is no longer
A replica with no taste
May i admire
Your tinted cheek
This lobby of worth
You eloped with a bout of slurs
Flew the hedge with a pace
I must convey when i feel good then i pay
Keep quiet about my lane
Come let's probe these blackened eyes
Come let's smear this spectacle
Come let's slam on the light
This must soon be revised
Hinterland, i shall descend
Hinterland, i crumble within
I shall feel nothing
I'm never gonna live in that room with you
Weathered from seeing the upside
Choking on my own smile
I float around with my heavy crown
Grease the coil to watch it unwind
It feels so fitting to cover things with gauze
Sever the from the outcome
I stood inside your pool in some palm setting reel
A picture on a screen there sat you and me
And i comb the wire for a lock of papier-mache
I build a tower for you to portray
You let go of my hand and acted like we never touched
Like some harbour a ship never brushed
I am the floor pile walk over me
My light has grown tired paint over me
All at once i just can't abide i fear
Long before this deserted map
You use to dim to light
The person you show one use to believe
The facet has blurred the link
You boil the greatest of lakes
You lid the envelope of monsoon
Your mar hushes my frame
You lid the envelope of monsoon
Your gilded eye
Your sharpened speech
You use to lend the light
A flask welder
Your jaunty trade
( Instrumental )
I croon like a lumber crane
Sank quick inside your snare
Her fellow steps across my head
I'm her colt and she's my mare
Dense falls across my face
That's the source i won't contemplate
Up the hill to a vacant lot
There's nothing to see
Walk the pillars to settle in
And find that you've turned from me
You're the cup and you're the drink
That keeps swimming up north through the stream
I'm the raft that got filled with sand
That keeps knocking about in the drain
My hands are laid out to persuade a gathering
Hair is polished and shiny trim
These bloated veins have climbed
Hillsides and airlines
Looking for a limb to reside
This eager scheme has turned
Lathered up your bottled smile
But the notice passes the tether by
In storms the coils do fail
And I will paw for air
You buckle and stir
My brittle hand
O, this empty glance of you
Folds only to consume
O, how they fray away
Enter state
I watched you confirm all of my fears
Have given birth
Offer me
Offer me
Offer me some restraint
Not for this
Not for this
It cannot take place
Let them hear my plea
When your love comes after me
Let them hear my plea
When your love comes after me
No sayin' this
No sayin' this
Why must we try
Metallic sky buries me
I'll soon forget
Let them hear my plea
When your love comes after me
Let them hear my plea
When your love comes after me
Your love is a forgery
A mockingbird to mimic through me
And these eyes, they will not recover
Your eyes have turned to black
Turned to black
Turned to black
I'm the bagpipe that is bursting
I'm the shuffleboard at night
Your eyes they swim like oceans
Every word is a lovely rhyme
You're sporadic and so lovely
Every room is so alive
I'm laughter and a fake
My bulb is an ugly shrine
Pay no mind to me
Built a house made out of blood
Fought the serpent and his thugs
Played the game fought the fought
All wrapped you astound me living life through
Your sleep
Yard grass in flight on the ledge we fly
What could hinder this haste
Calm strewn the isle of this tattered grain
In all this muzzled distaste
I brush the vial hoping to misplace
Cover me with soil and tread
Drape me with flames this frock of disdain
Stop this sunken ravine pull out the slate
From under me
This kingdom in the quilt of demand
He's a man of the grain
Wears his robe of burly pain
Bowls the town for alcohol
Chewed up his name and he sold it all
Perched it up for sale
He turned the light out
He turned the sign down farewell goodnight
The awning falls flat and the clocks are spinning
Bowl the town for alcohol you are what i need
He resides in a carnival turns the pages
And mocks it all he's a martyr with a wide rope
Turns his head to watch it fall
Hacked his hand through the toil
Shade calls the bone marrow she left a stage so bare
And everyone clapped to see you rise so gracefully
What a fright on such a beautiful night
The soldiers rang around my head
The flies ate the called cabs
Air dives from your reach
You cover your mouth
Hoard your lovely breath
For which not to speak
You're always sweet
There goes your mother and her plague
What a terrible display
Of a charcoaled tongue
That wouldn't lend a hand
Though this dead was a thoughtless act
With alcohol intact
Quietly she seeks the day to pass
With those stitches that you clean
You hold your flag of your doleful plea
Now there's nothing left to recall
A fruitless title bestowed
Amongst someone you could never know
In this plight of this dismay
This thickness of your plague
The hover is ajar
My worth has fled
Be certain of this empty tray
Do we maintain that there is no one
For me to ring
This stale sight of you
Your spotted eyes
They're soiled through
Doldrums badger the hum
Flapping about for everyone
These limbs they do ring
Stagger with frugal means
Hector pillars within
Choking the laughter thin
This checkered timely place
Your babble swells the complaint
Carry the cost
There goes your body in a box
That is all i have left
Now this odor lines my shaking bed
There's no order to you
Come with me you dirty wretch
How does this duty send me relief
I'm rushing a lamppost fevers got me
I'm thawing my best jokes but i sat alone
With the captain of the quarantine
I chewed my way through my boat
I paddled with feathers i fell snug in a fish snare
My faulty fins fell impaired
You boasted about your coins
I seared back your wooden charm
Bring yourself up to the light
You shall be burned senselessly
Bring yourself up to the light
You shall be rinsed out of your state
Confine yourself to the light
And burrow your tepid shame
Bite down on your tongue
What does not wither will pry away
Bite down on your tongue
That black little stray has come for your taste
That black little stray has come for your taste
Confess all that you've seen
Confess with one of all your tragic misdeeds
See the sun wrestle with your door
See the sun wrestle with your door
Trembling stray, this is now your home
Your presence howls inside my ear
You lifted the ark from me
Now there's nothing i cannot see
A wooden tin, a hidden sleet
Throw the matches upon my bed
In this boiling light
It swims through this
Hollowed bin to me
My man
Dissolved in my hand
Just like an avalanche
He's gone
Our plans
There's no plans
White mountaintop
I climb down
My man
Dissolved in my hand
Just like an avalanche
He's gone
Our plans
There's no plans
White mountaintop
Under the carport that has no spring
Cement floors where the creatures ring
And your mother she never calls
Says you're the cause of all her pain
But all these things don't carry camelot
Through the betrayed all these things
Don't hold form with a stout cord and chain
You are out of sorts and ready to retire
On the brink of my answer i fell asleep
Mend the sea on this floating tin can
On the branch i bend
This swollen page is a yawning friend
Through the straw i stem
Reframe and cut this, ailing theme
In the lenses i tame
How can i conceal this woven outline
There's no cure so why should i care
You have fled into this blackness
In this sling i must contain
You use your force
To comfort my trembling hands
And fold them aside
These hued eyes
They have sent
The longest beatings
The hour bows
To seek some light
With golden strings
You construct this wheel
( Instrumental )
He throws a blanket over the sun
He closes out everyone
While she prays,
"Don't let him take me. There must be a better way."
You will come to me in a dream
Rifled of my sorrow or just to ease my pain
And let it slay me or let me suffocate
Oh, why must you leave
This lamb you wound remains
if only to see your face
I pray on my knees
Oh, why must you leave
This lamb you wound remains
if only to see your face
I've taken everything
Even the birds could not
take the burden of her body's plate
No wires held in place
Her body just could never mend
And let it take me
Oh, come take me instead
No love is here
No love is here
No love is here
No love is here
No love is here
No love is here
No love is here
No love is here
Oh, why must you leave?
This lamb you wound remains
if only to see your face
I pray on my knees
If only to see your face
This lamb you wound remains
I pray on my knees
Though it may seem
You never denied me of anything
You said in your worthless lie
Better stay with your own and I'll stay with mine
But if only we could just leave from this place
And step away from your black "frivoled" sky
If only we could just leave from this place
And step away from your black "frivoled" sky
Better watch what you say
You might just find out your words have no worth
You said in your miserable lie
Better stay with yours and I'll stay with mine
But if only we could just leave from this place
And step away from your black "frivoled" sky
If only we could just leave from this place
And step away from your black "frivoled" sky
Such a mistake
Such a mistake to spend time on you
Such a mistake
Such a mistake to spend time on you
But if only we could just leave from this place
And step away from your black "frivoled" sky
If only we could just leave from this place
This drone you sound alarmingly meek
Is inside my head and plummets my bed
It rallies and summons me in my sleep
The sun is groggy and upon your plate
Arms do fumble they're out of their frame
Luster has moved and opted your space
When you call a caddy
I'll be the kind you use
The sagas pose their levee
That's the kind that floats to you
And after all i idle to carry on
The clocks married the dated
Operas sails salutes
The planks are calm with boredom
It's the kind you tend to coo
Every gala's a blanket in flight
And i'm the kind you use
And you with all your ready is a horror
The recital is staged and ready to recite
Stating the flaws and running you wild
But i'll be any stable you like
The radius is starting to stumble and fright
The loveliest station is wailing from sight
When the day is over
And it falls into gray
Move your body close
There changed
And could you be the answer
For a wretch like me
Clasp your hand in mine
I must confess
You'll be the death...
Of me...
And all my trials start
Moth to the light
You on your face
The cruelest eyes
And could you blur my visions
No words do we need
Clasp your hand in mine
I must confess
You'll be the death of me
While I...
I sit here waiting...
All day
Hours age,
I'll be your friend
All day
Hours age,
All day
I'll be your friend
You'll be the death...
Of me...
You sing the saddest sounds
In the voice in my ruin
You on your face
The cruelest eyes
And could you be the answer
For a wretch like me
Clasp your hand in mine
I must confess
You'll be the death of me
While I...
I sit here waiting...
All day
Hours age,
I'll be your friend
All day
Hours age,
All day
I'll be your friend
You'll be the death of me
While I...
I sit here waiting...
Waiting...
No hope for you
No hope for me
You'll be the death of me
While I...
This frost you stand in
It draws on wobbled legs
This sway is stabled
I gnaw through your gate
You sort what i bend
You jar me for relief
This canter is guided
This room i pace
You hurry wonder
And fasten it in
You idle my forfeit
My dire you mend
The uproar is cautious
The error absent
This order is frantic
In the backyard today
The light ricochets
Along the dark trees
And I never thought I would be
So ready to play
Alone in your sea
You baffle me
You baffle me
You baffle me
You baffle me
And now your tongue may be bold
When I just want to hold
Your delicate cheek
And tear the page from your hymn
Your song is too grim
The night is tucked in
You baffle me
You baffle me
You baffle me
You baffle me
And the moon trails on
You speak mildly
You move in me
You baffle me
You baffle me
You baffle me
Your eyes
Tarnished gold
So crystallized
And wise
You stood
Just like
A tender child
Whenever you stumble by
Your smile
Familiar eyes
You disturb my sleep
I pursue your cheek
To posess
Whenever we try to speak
So I see here
In the restless sun
I'm seen here
Before the crashes come
I'm seen here
In the rushing sun
I'm seen here
Before the moment's gone
From now on
It shall be you
Though we may never speak
Your light
Comes in
Crashing down
All over me
So I see here
In the vacant sun
I'm seen here
Before the crashes come
I'm seen here
In the restless sun
I'm seen here
Before the light is gone
I won't do without you
I won't do without you
I won't do without
See me
In the restless sun
You see me
Before the crashes come
You see me
In the vacant sun
You see me
Before the light is drawn
You see me
In the restless sun
You see me
Before the moment's gone
You see me
In the vacant sun
You see me
You couldn’t keep
Your lavish voice down
Like a volcanic flow
That clings to the ground
When the light shone down
Upon your checkered face
You reach but don’t take
In a quiet room
No more time to spend alone
This place is drab
You’re the best friend I ever had
When the light shone down
Upon your checkered face
When you say the things you say
I don’t know what to think
In a quiet
The things you say
No more
The things you say
In a quiet
No more
When the light shone down
Upon your checkered face
When you say the things you say
If not for you
I'd be lost
And with too much to repay
With one lace and one shoe
If not for you
I would be a broken bird with broken wings
That won’t move
That won’t mend
Everything must come to an end
Let's stay as long as we can
Everything must come to an end
They'll kill the actor in the end
If not for you
I'd be cast
With my tail between my legs
Without you
There'd be no rest
Everything must come to an end
Let's stay as long as we can
Everything must come to an end
You fiend, you friend, you confidant
You hold me against my will
I scurry and scant this hectic step
You climb adrift this boorish racket
This wire, this mane, this coronet
You hold me against my will
I rummage and sear this furious step
You climb adrift this boorish racket
You and me could ride this fleet
This state it cannot be sound
For seeing through
The day with fresh eyes
Try to lick these bits
Back into place
These tanks bore there wintry weight
To wake to these scraps of morn
It bears a stone
And that's what i've become
These legs are built upon a surly demise
We all reach for a hand in which we will guide
Let's sit quiet and we shall not stir
Your mouth is fragrant
And lassoing this room
And never is too long to date
Your crusty petals are prying away
Like a barrel of dread
You are hovering 'round my head
If only you could try to resist
Come now, wont you try to forget
Steadfast and true
Gentle are few
When everything just slips away
So glad to see you smiling
On this new morning with me
Steadfast and true
Gentle are few
When these thoughts just get in our way
Steadfast and true
Gentle are few
Two young horses dragging to St Pete
Worn out tired, right here
And the night falls on this oceans' white hour
‘Cause you won’t be coming home to me
And you said it sad and so playfully
I wish God would make things clear
‘Cause there’s no fight left in me
Relentlessly the sun is igniting
While all these concrete boxes sit empty
On these defeated Floridian streets
I know you won’t be coming home to me
Two young horses dragging to St Pete
Worn out, tired
Worn out, tired
What's this
That I see
Have you turned yourself from thee
You are not
What you portray
Any longer.
Well
There it is
No more comfort
Will comfort me
You are not
What you appear
Anymore.
Let it not subside
That beacon falls from your eyes
There's nothing left but change
Well
Quietly
My eyes quality
"sight to see"
You are not
What you appear any longer.
Let it not subside
That beacon fallen from your eyes
There's nothing left but change
What was, what will be
Have you turned yourself from me
You are not
What you appear to be
Any longer.
Longer
Look at you
You wouldn't do this to... me
Well
Quietly
My eyes ???
"sight to see"
You are not
What you appear
Any longer.
Longer, ohhhhhhh
If, by chance, you come for me
I won't slip away
If, by chance, you come for me
I won't slip away
From you
Me...
Louise has spilled her bottle of pills
She speaks with a foul mouth
And struggles with them
And she
Could do most anything
Yes she
But as you turn
You do, my dear
You do
Look so sad
Your badges
Your pictures
Are hung on the wall
The house has been painted
The numbers are gone
But as you turn
You do, my dear
You do
Look so sad
She's barren
She's bare
She stares at me
She's frozen in my memories
In my memories
You, dead sparrow
Used to sing
And now what once was yours
Is out of reach
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
You were timid, shy away
If only you'd let the day unfold
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
In the morning light
Cold, tender light
In the morning light
Cold, tender light
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
Oh, everything you wanted gave way
In the morning light
Cold, tender light
In the morning light
It is cruel
The tricks we play
Only I could find my way
Do what you want to
Say what you want to say
Your unruly eyes
Ruly eyes
They speak
When there’s trials
So quiet
When there’s trials
Watch for idle hands
We need the tender care
Of useful things
To prepare
So bend the light to share
When there's trials
So quiet
When there's trials
I started a joke
Which started the whole world crying
Oh if I could only see that the joke was on me
I started to cry
Which started the whole world laughing
Oh if I could only see that the joke was on me
I looked at the sky
Rubbing my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head
From things that I said
Til I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh if I could only see that the joke was on me
I looked at the sky
Rubbing my hands over my eyes
I fell out of bed
Hurting my head
From things that I said
Til I finally died
Which started the whole world living
You ought to know by now
Nobody’s coming to make a sound
You take the fork to your mouth
Have no shame
Try to contain
What’s it like
What’s it like
When everybody says you ain’t trying
What’s it like
What’s it like
When everybody says you ain’t even trying
Oh, the faithful heart
Is when we start
With these trying things
Should have known better
To ask for something
You wouldn’t give
You take the words from your mouth
And nobody knows what the truth is
So what’s the point
What’s the point
When everybody else ain’t even trying
What’s the point, what’s the point
When everybody else ain’t even trying
Oh, the faithful heart
Is when we start
With these trying things
Oh, everybody's got their own part in their own play
And I wish I could pour some salt on this tepid rain
But oh, the faithful heart
Is when we start
Birds never sleep
On this mountain peak
In a borrowed town
The bells never ring
Piercing the sky
On a noon time flight
Casting down
These dampened streets
Your ember eyes
Outshine the night
Outshine the night
Hiding rivers from the sea
Your ember eyes
Outshine the night
Outshine the night
Hiding rivers from the sea
Your lie locked hair
On the back of your chair
Is the robe of a cavalier
Hours in the night
Soon will strike
This tower that we built
Your ember eyes
Outshine the night
Outshine the night
Hiding rivers from the sea
Your ember eyes
Outshine the night
Outshine the night
So stark is this burrow
So void is this valley
So bare is this vessel
These emberdays have grown grey
So vague is this refuge
So wide is this pattern
So clean is this tassel
Oh give it time
These trying days
Just let it lie
Your boat will come
And when it comes
Don’t send it back
Yes when it comes
Don’t send it back
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt me
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt me
Lift your voice
The depth of ???
And soon you'll see
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt me.
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt me.
Your boat will come
And when it comes
Don’t send it back
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt me.
Don’t you doubt
Don’t you doubt
This background is so vague
This falter much too strong
A slew of reluctance
Makes the focus warble on
For every laden vein
Is a grim pail of prey
The true are open
They wrestle with this state
What a dirty facade
The coming of an ugly file
Every guide is ill-timed
Purely lit for the lofty kind
What a dirty facade
The coming of an idle qualm
And everyone is so still
You help me do the things I hold
You help me do the things I hold
Defy, defy our love
Defy, defy our love
And it's not the roles you play
And it's not the roles I play
Defy, defy our love
Defy, defy our love.
Oh, how they start
Little birds so gently
I give you all the love I’ve got
And let it shine right through me
Can we please forget the pain
Can we please forget today
Define, define our love
Define, define this love
Oh, how they start
Little birds so gently
I give you all the love I’ve got
And let it shine right through me
All the while
I still carry
The lullabies that you sing
Circle round angry on me
The world came tumbling down
The day is crashing through
Your tear dim eyes in their best disguise
Know that things must fall somewhere
Come let’s make things safe
The trouble it shall break
The leaves have changed to red
No more black rain
No more black rain to come
There’s no need to ask why
When the boat is sinking
We didn’t move when we needed it most
Know that things must fall somewhere
Come let’s make things safe
The trouble it shall break
The leaves have changed to red
No more black rain
No more black rain
No more black rain to come
Come let’s make things safe
The trouble it shall break
The leaves have changed to red
No more black rain
No more black rain
Deep beneath the sound of your breath
I lay craving your death
This damp room full of concrete
Lonely i stand
And alone i will leave
There is no reason for your display
Now a dead cloud that's drawn clean
When all the birds have broken their wings
Oh mercy you
Oh mercy me
And all at once i turned
I follow your hand to our funeral bed
It echoes my name
When sorrow sings
It brings me no chance we'll ever mend
When all the noise is driven away
There's my love, now it's stained
Gallant words
You must refrain
Lonely i stand
And alone i will leave
There is no reason to your display
You're a fable
Now come clean
When all the birds have broken their wings
Oh mercy you
Oh mercy me
And all at once i turned
I follow your hand to our funeral bed
It echoes my name
When sorrow sings
It brings me no chance we'll ever mend
Walk, walk walk walk away
Burn, burn burn, burn into flames
Shy, shy, shy, shy away
Over this past
Over this pain
And all at once i turned
I follow your hand to our funeral bed
It echoes my name
When sorrow sings
It's taken its toll
It's beyond my control
I'm lying in this shaky head
Your voice impaired
I can see that you're scared
Let me know when it's done
I'm hanging from your string
I'm your puppet I'm not your king
I'm hanging from your string
I'm your puppet I'm not your king
This
With axes over my eyes
I see but i cannot speak
Pulling threads from my sleep
I'm hanging from your string
I'm your puppet I'm not your king
I'm hanging from your string
I'm your puppet I'm not your king
Tell me when it's over
Tell me when it's over
I'm hanging from your string
I'm your puppet I'm not your king
I'm hanging from your string
I'm your puppet I'm not your king
Every day the sun down
Knocking flames
Kingdom that we use to keep
Now a fable not a dream
A silver coated satellites
Such a sad and lovely sight
Winter comes
Knocking
I was born an only child
Now a fable not a dream
Every child stands in line
For silver coated satellites
Doldrums badger the hum
Flapping about for everyone
These limbs they do ring
Stagger with frugal means
Hector pillars within
Choking the laughter thin
This checkered timely place
Your babble swells the complaint
Carry the cost
But what will turn this noise down
Enter state
I watched you confirm all of my fears
Have given birth
Offer me
Offer me
Offer me some restraint
Not for this
Not for this
It cannot take place
Let them hear my plea
When your love comes after me
Let them hear my plea
When your love comes after me
No sayin' this
No sayin' this
Why must we try
Metallic sky buries me
I'll soon forget
Let them hear my plea
When your love comes after me
Let them hear my plea
When your love comes after me
Your love is a forgery
A mockingbird to mimic through me
And these eyes, they will not recover
Your eyes have turned to black
Turned to black
Turned to black
Turned to black
I croon like a lumber crane
Sank quick inside your snare
Her fellow steps across my head
I'm her colt and she's my mare
Dense falls across my face
That's the source i won't contemplate
You can't tear my shell away
There goes your mother and her plague
What a terrible display
Of a charcoaled tongue
That wouldn't lend a hand
Though this dead was a thoughtless act
With alcohol intact
Quietly she seeks the day to pass
With those stitches that you clean
You hold your flag of your doleful plea
Now there's nothing left to recall
A fruitless title bestowed
Amongst someone you could never know
In this plight of this dismay
This thickness of your plague
She's a realm that's lost her way
You ought to know by now
Nobody’s coming to make a sound
You take the fork to your mouth
Have no shame
Try to contain
What’s it like
What’s it like
When everybody says you ain’t trying
What’s it like
What’s it like
When everybody says you ain’t even trying
Oh, the faithful heart
Is when we start
With these trying things
Should have known better
To ask for something
You wouldn’t give
You take the words from your mouth
And nobody knows what the truth is
So what’s the point
What’s the point
When everybody else ain’t even trying
What’s the point, what’s the point
When everybody else ain’t even trying
Oh, the faithful heart
Is when we start
With these trying things
Oh, everybody's got their own part in their own play
And I wish I could pour some salt on this tepid rain
But oh, the faithful heart
Is when we start
With these trying things