The summer sets
And the world's closing down again
It's in my head
While it's all really happening
There's a dam in the waterway
Made from the things we've thrown out
A mother makes her home
Inviting life a space to grow out
I'm broken glass
That you've picked up one too many times
Keep floating back
To your life raft each and every night
You let me drift past
Fade out of sight
The summer's gone
And now it's winter all the time
The waves are crashing down
I don't know how to swim
Leave me out to drown
You can't save me in the end
The world's closing down
I feel it in your skin
You tried to make it right
I wouldn't let you in
It's been a thousand days or more
And a hundred miles or less
But the time goes without moving
And the distance closes in
Now a downpour from the sky
Causes flooding for the kids
That the mother tried to raise
On the island by the bridge
And I wonder every night
If a lost soul stood and hid
Thought to jump to make it end
Would they wind up like we did
The waves are crashing down
I don't know how to swim
Leave me out to drown
You can't save me in the end
The world's closing down
I feel it in your skin
You tried to make it right
I wouldn't let you in
There's a fire in the sky
And it's been there all my life
Burning demons in my lungs
They try to speak to me at night
There's a fire in the sky
And it's been there all my life
Burning demons in my lungs
They try to speak to me at night
There's a fire in the sky
And it's been there all my life
Burning demons in my lungs
I'll let them speak to me tonight
Fire in the sky
Demons in my lungs
The waves are crashing down
I don't know how to swim
Leave me out to drown
You can't save me in the end
The world's closing down
I feel it in your skin
You tried to make it right
I'd never let you in