The Keeper
Is a woman
How I lay low
How I lay low
Her silence
Analogue motion
No hand will move her
Time will go on
But secrets
Do not become her
This lie beholden to a lie
The Keeper
Is a woman
We tell her all
She's no one to tell
By this line of reason
The Keeper's a grassblade
Softens the landing
Of what falls from sweetness
Or is she an arrow
Eye on the target
Hands tied together
Aiming for honor
I've been a grassblade
I've been an arrow
Long lean and waiting
Long lean and waiting
By this line of reason
I have the power
Of a double edged kingdom
A principled prison
I've been a grassblade
I've been an arrow
Long lean and waiting
Long lean and waiting
By this line of reason
I have the power
Of a double edged kingdom
A principled prison
If I am honest (silence)
I cannot be the Keeper (you're asking for)
And if you make me (your mistake)
I cannot be your woman (I cannot hold on)
This silence is the loudest sore
And your mistake, I hold no more
(Ohh, Ohh, Ohh)
I cannot be the Keeper
(Ohh, Ohh, Ohh)
I cannot be the Keeper
(honest, power, secret)
I cannot be the Keeper
(honor, Keeper, do not make me)
But I must be a woman
(Ahh)
(Ahh)