It stripped us separately
Leaving only the muscle
The bone
Exposed

We become strangers again
Once in twenty years again
Since in child birth
We're nothing

But we love each other
But for why we do not know
Only mother and son,
Pain and regret

The sharpest death of her
Left the deepest scar in our flame
Only a matter of time
To burn out.

Did you question your mother
Did she really believe
That all she does is sing and make you weep
And she cannot do better?

Our minds in sync
For twenty years in bliss
But now she knows I'm a freak and spends obscene
On the drink to get thin

You're sad in battle
And dad's in a cage
And all she's does is take to the stage to pour the pain
Into the next bottle

Weep to mother
Mummy knows best
But mummy's scream is her last breath
Because under my roof we know better.

You're the sweat in my sheets
You're the reason I can't sleep
Toss and turn in a manic frenzy
You're why I can't be

I'll turn in a day
In a wild fantasy I try to keep at bay
Keeping me up till three am
You're why I let all my clothes stay frayed

I'll sleep well
Knowing there's nothing there
Nothing that'll make you appear
Behind my screen

I sing songs
Of love I know nothing of
I write love
Of which I know not of
Where can they go?
They ride on the sea to nowhere

I write songs
Of words that can't fathom
I scrawl lives
That I cannot have faith in
Where should they go?
They tread the path to other care

You wrote me
Alone in the bedroom
And I sang songs
Of love that you see straight through
But they are real
They ride the light that shines through you.

I can do it
Place myself there

Won't be present in it's feelings
But I can do it
To hear my sweet wedding bells.

Sometimes I walk
And often I live

But I kneel at your song bird
Clutch it in my hands
Hoping to never feel afraid

They are known to be like that
Their incessant screaming is hell
Yet they the loudest in their minds

Give me your full emotional force
To stop it squirming
And leave me to die, would you be so kind?

You placed me in here
And I love it

Won't be present in it's singing
Could I do it?
Could I really?

Present on my wedding day
You sang on my wedding day
You the song bird

You and I know we can't stay here
To hear our sweet wedding bells
But I'll kneel at your song bird
Do not regret

Do not stay

It's god you need
To help with your own battle
The war to open your eyes
The fight to set yourself free

I believe in you
There is strong devotion
Strong enough to love
To push it straight through

How do you sleep at night?
I'd break in two, a thousand times
Because I sleep in your light
How do you sleep at night?

Take what you can
I am right front of you
Take me where you go
And I'll weep at where you stand

You make me see how to love
And I never knew what that was,
Maybe I can't hold the right words
But I'll set them free, like doves

You make sense to me
I see what you feel
How you see colours
How I feel the sun on our pale skin

How do you sleep at night?
I have shrieked a million times
Because I shed little light
You fight wars in your mind
But that's all I see
As I have killed a hundred times
So how do you sleep at night?

I fell over hard this evening
Fell into the river and washed up upon the shore
Glaring at the sun through the water
It seems that I now know more than I did before

I wept in the middle of the field
And on the way home I exploded into a thousand tiny pieces
In my antique town we said goodbye,
Left you here, suspended in a time plastered with our faces.

You see me here,
We writhed around in sorrow
No we know the world isn't fair
Long before we face tomorrow

I bloomed in the field of despair
A brand new being, beaten but pointed towards the light
Or so I hope, how can I say this
When I don't know how to live without you?
Should we collide?

You see me here,
We writhed around in the field of despair
Where we bloomed,
Where our few blue birds sang of love and fear.