Talismans to Keep Me

Hey, I've been crawling here to be with you

Crawling for my life

Hey, did you ever hear the song from 1994 about a lantern and a door?

And how many more lanterns were collected and hung?

Burned into my skin and sung

About talismans to keep me climbing?

Baby, I've got a symbol too

I've got an armor, too

And it's black black candles drawn on me

Baby, you came here on your own

To read the lines transcribed in tone

And it's black black candles drawn on me

Hey, I've been crawling here to be with you

Crawling for my life

Hey, now that the river is moving

Let me be, let me run, let me forget the wounds that adorn me tonight

I can see a few meaningless shapes before me

Fall away in the future like burning leaves

Baby, I've got a symbol too

I've got an armor, too

And it's black black candles drawn on me

Baby, you came here on your own

To read the lines transcribed in tone

And it's black black candles drawn on me

Hey,

Do you know if it will ever be my time?

Before another lantern and a door

And so many more lanterns are collected and hung

Burned into my skin and sung about

Talismans to keep me climbing?

Hey,

Let us wake to the laughing of the raven

Its mantle and its mane

Left for us to claim

Laughing when we make a song