歌曲 | A Clown and His Pipe |
歌手 | Hands Like Houses |
专辑 | Ground Dweller |
下载 | Image LRC TXT |
There’s better ways for us to waste our days, | |
Than returning stares that we borrowed for too long. | |
For too long, swallowed up by an empty page. | |
What starvation feeds you, devourer | |
Of the words of a thousand authors and poets, alike? | |
Wells have emptied to whet your thirst, | |
So I’ll shake out to the last, a drop of fluency | |
To carve ink into these precious words, | |
To dedicate a thought in desperation. | |
We could light a fire and forge a silver tongue. | |
Drawn beneath our blunt remarks, | |
Fashioned from all of our meaningless change. | |
What would it take, to pry these ragged teeth, to tear these jaws apart? | |
What would it prove, to wrench them from my heels, to shed them from my heart? | |
Swallowing swords, sharpened by turning cheeks between blows. | |
I feel this is better left a performers art. | |
It’s a narrow throat that keeps a razor’s edge from the heart. | |
I’d rather not speak in tongues. | |
But I’ll take every breath - | |
I’ll make every breath a piper, charming flames, | |
Singing and dancing, out from their smouldering bed. | |
Swallow the pen, devour the sword. | |
Inhale the proverbs whole. | |
Spinning on static, gouged before the peak. | |
In this chaos of frequencies it’s so hard to speak. | |
This noise is nameless, | |
Stumbling like a beggar, | |
Desperate for some kind of change. |
There' s better ways for us to waste our days, | |
Than returning stares that we borrowed for too long. | |
For too long, swallowed up by an empty page. | |
What starvation feeds you, devourer | |
Of the words of a thousand authors and poets, alike? | |
Wells have emptied to whet your thirst, | |
So I' ll shake out to the last, a drop of fluency | |
To carve ink into these precious words, | |
To dedicate a thought in desperation. | |
We could light a fire and forge a silver tongue. | |
Drawn beneath our blunt remarks, | |
Fashioned from all of our meaningless change. | |
What would it take, to pry these ragged teeth, to tear these jaws apart? | |
What would it prove, to wrench them from my heels, to shed them from my heart? | |
Swallowing swords, sharpened by turning cheeks between blows. | |
I feel this is better left a performers art. | |
It' s a narrow throat that keeps a razor' s edge from the heart. | |
I' d rather not speak in tongues. | |
But I' ll take every breath | |
I' ll make every breath a piper, charming flames, | |
Singing and dancing, out from their smouldering bed. | |
Swallow the pen, devour the sword. | |
Inhale the proverbs whole. | |
Spinning on static, gouged before the peak. | |
In this chaos of frequencies it' s so hard to speak. | |
This noise is nameless, | |
Stumbling like a beggar, | |
Desperate for some kind of change. |
There' s better ways for us to waste our days, | |
Than returning stares that we borrowed for too long. | |
For too long, swallowed up by an empty page. | |
What starvation feeds you, devourer | |
Of the words of a thousand authors and poets, alike? | |
Wells have emptied to whet your thirst, | |
So I' ll shake out to the last, a drop of fluency | |
To carve ink into these precious words, | |
To dedicate a thought in desperation. | |
We could light a fire and forge a silver tongue. | |
Drawn beneath our blunt remarks, | |
Fashioned from all of our meaningless change. | |
What would it take, to pry these ragged teeth, to tear these jaws apart? | |
What would it prove, to wrench them from my heels, to shed them from my heart? | |
Swallowing swords, sharpened by turning cheeks between blows. | |
I feel this is better left a performers art. | |
It' s a narrow throat that keeps a razor' s edge from the heart. | |
I' d rather not speak in tongues. | |
But I' ll take every breath | |
I' ll make every breath a piper, charming flames, | |
Singing and dancing, out from their smouldering bed. | |
Swallow the pen, devour the sword. | |
Inhale the proverbs whole. | |
Spinning on static, gouged before the peak. | |
In this chaos of frequencies it' s so hard to speak. | |
This noise is nameless, | |
Stumbling like a beggar, | |
Desperate for some kind of change. |