Small Bones - Small Bones (Prelude) Lyrics

Feels like I'm wearing out
Last warmth of organ-song
A bath-tub left at night
Will empty out by dawn
Feels like I'm thinner now
As long as I still breath
In desperation
Oh won't you comfort me
A time for putting down
To put down childish toys
A candle left at night will crackle into noise
My heart's asleep the wheel
My body's grown numb
You led me to your bed
My clothes are soaking wet

Rest now and I'll carry you back home
To all the quiet days: every lost hope, every mistake
Every word meant but never said
You can rest here
While I carry you, dust off your frail frame
Then run you'll run into open arms yet
The lasting regret, the last of your fight
The last of your line
And I still tried
In the face of laughing Gods
Steep climbs and laughable odds

Back through open fields
And streams you never saw
To stony city haze
And back through the thaw
To the place where the roads don't reach
Beyond the span of animal
The range of the preacher
My iniquities
I never dreamed that I would see summer lights
Cast our profiles so vitally
Limp on small one
The finish line is nearing reach
One day you'll be thanking me

Can you feel it
Can you feel it like a cry
Through the iron-cold sky
Yea, there's a coldness here
There's a coldness here
Eating into the inside
Just me with the black eyes
And an aching quiet
From every corner
Every view of the outside
A sinking quiet in every room
Of this sinking house
I'll never be free if I'm not free now

To lay you back down finally
In the pale nativity
In summer bluster
Where I remember you to your
Sisters in these stolen years
And I can feel it, feel the beat of your heart still
Limp no more
You'll be thanking me one day
Though you don't know it now
One day you'll be thanking me

Where's my clearing of the sky
Where's my parting of the tide
Even the most chilling of wind might kindle a fire inside
Where's my freedom from this cage
Freedom from this weary eye
O tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow and I
Glinting far in dimming light
The closing of the arc
This rolling dark
No family at the bedside
In my empire whole
No stirring grove
Even as landscapes tail away
All that sound and fury wrought
Rests not where peace lays.

Oh please release me
Glinting far in dimming light
The closing of the arc
This rolling dark
No family at the bedside
In my empire whole
No stirring grove
Even as landscapes tail away
All that sound and fury wrought
Rests not where peace lays

Please release me
Where's my clearing of the sky
Where's my parting of the tide
A life in sin, no beggar's gin to balm an ache inside
Where's my freedom from this cage
Freedom from my brother's eyes
O tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow and I

A place for all
A calm in grace's place falls
A pain to yield
Fall the righteous, there's a lightness here
For the lightless, falling without feel
Is without fear

Recoil from ash and bone and oil
Atop towers of light
Where God's hammer broke the sky

My waking side, my waking side
Nothing gets past it, nothing slips my mind
I swear on my life, swear on my pride
I swear on the comfort here that I designed
My waking mind, my waking mind
Can't find a fault in my waking mind
I swear it's the truth, I swear it's my pride
Don't cry for me, no, I'm feeling fine
My naked mind
My naked mind
Half-focused pictures thread these days gone by
Man's fallen chorus rages and recites
As we lose we cry at least we tried