Lyrics

Never always in a dream
Tucked away, fearing what they’d see
She screams

Never feeling like herself
Kept giving into someone else
Her hell

Never in or out of town
Jealous of the tumbleweed go round 
She’s grown

Dancing in hell 
Disastrous spells 
Quietest yell
Disastrous spells

Turned the key, gone to take a drive
Tears gone, swallowed in the night
No goodbyes

What she learned she always felt inside
Her burden fell behind her eyes
Burnt sight

She nearly broke herself
To find out she’s been walking wrong
All along

Dancing in hell 
Disastrous spells 
Quietest yell
Disastrous spells

When she emerged
She cried from laughter
Found her ever after end

When she emerged
Defied her masters
Stopped disaster-ever-end

Oh disastrous spells
She rose from hell

When we met, we lost our bets
That we would end up like the rest
But deep down in our bones
We feared a sweet unknown

When we met, our walls were higher
We lined our moats with razor wire
Our towers held our truth
Built up from troubled youth

When we met, our guards were guarded
A phalanx for the brokenhearted
That kept our secrets safe
And held the world at bay

Our truth is in the nude
So all I’ll say to you

I hope we never ever do this again
Let our bones out of our skin
Exposed, I’m yours
I know we’ll never ever begin again
From now on until the end
Exposed, I’m yours

When we knew we were our one
The truth erupted our skeletons
Melodies our marrow made
Smeared that day like marmalade 

Forbidden fruit was self-imposed
Forgiven youth now self-exposed
Eve and Adam shared a bone
But we won’t even share our clothes 

The truth is in the nude
So all I’ll say to you

I hope we never ever do this again
Let our bones out of our skin
Exposed, I’m yours
I know we’ll never ever begin again
From now on until the end
Exposed, I’m yours

We blew up and fell down
Now our bones inside out 
Sleeves are gone like our arms
Vows we make hold our hearts

I wish you could un-ring this bell
Loud storybook, secret to tell
I’m not your passenger
He’ll shoot the messenger

I can’t keep this secret
That you reside in
I can’t be the villain
That you confide in

Clandestine love, you can’t take back 
Lies always hurt more than the act
Commit omission
Beg forgiveness 

I can’t keep this secret
That you reside in
I can’t be the villain
That you confide in

I can’t be what you want me to be
A villain of truth
I can’t keep what you want me to keep
Your version of truth

I can’t be what you want me to be
A villain of truth
I can’t keep what you want me to keep
Your version of truth

A villain, a villain
A villain, a villain

I won’t relive all my footsteps gone cold 
I found relief after walking on coals
Pain became truth and calluses grow
I killed my darlings and I burned their ghosts

They will never let me go
They just take another form
I won’t bury those friends any more
Beautiful demons never let me go

Re-wrote my genesis chapter and verse
Skin-shed my lessons, serpentine curse
Nothing’s forbidden fruit off the vine
All is forgiven, Eden is mine

But they will never let me go
They just take another form
I won’t bury those friends any more
Beautiful demons never let me go

Now I see what we used to be
Hands around my throat
Heaven rested beyond my death 
Strangled me reborn

Unclasp your hands and take my commands
Give me a standing O
Now I’m closer to my own light
But you can come along

They will never let me go
They just take another form
I won’t bury those friends any more
Beautiful demons never let me go

Oh God here I go
So scared on my own
Counting grains all alone
Hourglass unrestored
Our-past un-grained on the shore
Our sand castles nevermore
Oars have turned to pens
And I’m penned up right where I began
But I’m thankful for the sea of ink again

Ship you left for one
Why did you jettison
My sea legs can’t run
I’ll just pace and row
Where will I go
Far from your undertow

When the sky meets the sea
And the stars decree the light that used to be
This sea of ink is my marquee
Keeping up my pace and row
Exploding mines how they lurk below
I’m so raw and exposed
Exposure from the sun
Leaves me nowhere left to run
But I’m thankful for what you’ve done

Ship you left for one
Why did you jettison
My sea legs can’t run
I’ll just pace and row
Where will I go
Far from your undertow

Bridges now debris
I built them all, now they fall
Watch them as they sink
It was your call, now they fall
(Bridges now debris
I built them all, now they fall
Watch them as they sink
It was your call, now they fall)
Ship you left for one
Why did you jettison
My sea legs can’t run
I’ll just pace and row
Where will I go
Far from your undertow

Ship you left for one
Why did you jettison
My sea legs can’t run
I’ll just pace and row
Where will I go
Far from your undertow

Ship you left for one

Like the other night
Her Mercury's rising
But not in retrograde
She decries the orbit she made

Like a mother's lie
It's just temporary
Love will burn the shade
Thin disguise and truth delayed

Driving and striving, she stays on the right
Pacing, displacing all those dotted lines
Everyone asks how she is all the time
All she replies

I won't slow down
I swear I'm fine, I swear we're fine
Time won't slow down
I said I'm fine, yeah, no, we're fine

It's another fight
Mercurial sighing
He can't act his age
He won't try to paraphrase

In another life
She would still make her
And find another way
To defy the orbit she's made

Driving and striving, she stays on the right
Pacing, displacing all those dotted lines
Everyone asks how she is all the time
All she replies

I won't slow down
I swear I'm fine, I swear we're fine
Time won't slow down
I said I'm fine, yeah, no, we're fine

I won't slow down
I swear I'm fine, I swear we're fine
Time won't slow down
I said I'm fine, I'll tell you why

I'm so damn fine that I could break in the breeze
Your lips will slip, I will do as I please
Your yellow lines wasted time
Erase the paint, now she's mine

I won't slow down
Now that you signed, I'm feeling fine

I won't slow down
I swear I'm fine, I swear we're fine
Time won't slow down
I said I'm fine, but don't cross my line

I won't slow down
I swear I'm fine, I swear we're fine
Time won't slow down
I said I'm fine, yeah, no, we're fine

Sun and light that
I can't see
Salted air, it
Called to me

You were there
We were almost normal

Step outside and
Breathe and grieve
I'll exhale this
Melody

We were there
We were almost normal

Death cannot be lied to
Heaven keeps the score
Death cannot be lied to
Don't close your door

Eight PM on
Balconies
Choired noise but
We're still free

We were there
We were almost normal
We were scared
We were almost normal

Death cannot be lied to
Heaven keeps the score
Death cannot be lied to
Don't close your door
Don't close your door

God may forgive you, but I never will
Love may forget you, but I never will
She can't believe what you've done
Leave what you've done
Leave us alone

You were there
We were almost

We’re leaving the gavels at the door
No need to strain the metaphor 
You asked us to tell you when you go too far
So here we are, here we are

We loved you then, we love you now
Remember when we took our bows?
Brothers in arms, embracing the stage
Crowds fade away, but we still play
Your fiction can’t tangle history made

What children say still matters today
We traded hate and planted our fate

Sirens pull you out, brothers pray you in
We will never let you drown, show us you can swim

We’re meeting your shadows at the door
You counted 12 steps, but what about more?
Unlucky 13 lands you a score
Winning the battle but losing the war

Sharing blame and wearing shame
New sirens call, but the feeling’s the same
You are divine when you hold your ground
Not when your shadows push you around

What children say still matters today
We traded hate and planted our fate

Don’t lie
I want to feel all your stories
Forgery won’t bring you glory

Don’t lie
Who made you feel so alone?
Virtue murdered young

What you’ve done
It’s time to own

Off to the races
Brace for impact 
Pinky wrap grasp
Lose grip on bets

Bearing the risk
Repairing our twist
Now we’re entwined 
Sharing our fists

Prepare for the worst and
Swear for the best
Days that we damned
Weighed down the rest

We know where this goes
When we don’t know

We eclipse the pace
A lovely way to burn the day
Let’s get lost in space
Fly away to glowing face
Radiant display
Fly away until it breaks

Stuck in our maze
Agree to escape  
Ignorant ways
Can’t be undone

Gather alone
Toward the sun
Icarus ways
Wax now undone 

White hot horizon
No surprise when
Wings collapse
Time elapse

We know where this goes
When we don’t know

We eclipse the pace
A lovely way to burn the day
Let’s get lost in space
Fly away to glowing face
Radiant display
Fly away until it breaks

Who could we fool
Shadows made hold the truth
We flew to flames
Gray wings take the paint
Burning away 
Butterfly masquerade

We eclipse the pace
A lovely way to burn the day
Let’s get lost in space
Fly away to glowing face
Radiant display
Fly away until it breaks

Radiant display
Fly away until it breaks