Cutting off the light
Like I would an engine
Walking through the night
Like I've gone missing
Missing from the place I live
Missing from my brain I guess
Looking for some good
In another's hand
Looking for a life
I could understand
There's violence in the ways I left
Violence in the way again
Even then
You come in nightly
Even in a dream I'd spun
Even in the summer sun
I could not run
Glistening or faded
I'm sitting where it all began
I gave up on a promised land
But you were my friend
Aging
Now I feel it
It's always slipping through my hands
It wasn't what I thought back then
When beautiful birds were flying
Beautiful birds were flying
Circles in the sky
I'm finding
My way with them
Looking at the sky
For an opening
Looking for some life
On an empty screen
There's violence in the ways I live
Violence on my mind
Trace it
So I'm turning on the light
When I let you in
I open up my mind
With a new question
Now how could you possibly be
Now what could you possibly need
Nothing
Now I face it
There's nothing on the other side
I want to live inside your life
With violence on my only mind
When beautiful birds were flying
Beautiful birds were flying
Circles in the sky
I'm finding
My way with them
