Steely Fences

Steely fences up at your house

Can't get in I don't have a key

Only you have a key and it's tied to your chest

But I can dig a tunnel

Come up and surprise you

We can be friends we can tell secrets

I can tell you mine

We don't have to take drugs

We can see how it goes

We can see how it goes

I only know the future

Isn't as sure as I want it to be

Because I've been lying to myself

And everyone around me

I've spoken to the trees

The wind and the stars

They can't seem to help me

Understand what's in my heart

Let’s hope you get off lightly

One hundred years is a long time

You read about the women who came before you

You knew then what it was to be alive

Creeping in now is the dawn

The shadows are lying low

Will you be ok when all this is over?

When you can see down to the bone