Truths You Outrun

I spent a winter there

Trying to mute my fear

But when the water opened

It was everywhere

Nowhere to shelter

No way to disappear

Too late to change the unwinding of the years

All the damage is done

Ooh, ah

Ooh, ah

You can leave your sorrow in the city

But when your eyes close

You're going to feel it burn

My birthday passed

I lit a single match

Stuck it in a muffin

And had a little laugh

No celebration

No song out in the cold

No conversation about time and getting old

Just the truths you outrun

Ooh, ah

Ooh, ah

All the bright lights dancing in the night

Ooh, ah

Ooh, ah

And the trees waiting, taciturn

Ooh, ah

Ooh, ah

Tried to leave my sorrow in the city

But when my eyes close

I always feel it burn

I heard a sound behind me

She was standing by the shed

Saying, ‘Swept the riverbed to find you,

Parsed every word you’d said.

God, I can't believe it, I don't understand.'

I can't break the ties that bind me

You should have left me to my dread

To the shackles that confine me

To the jackals in my head

‘Cause I can't think and I can't focus

I stay high so I won’t notice

I can't sleep and I can’t feel my hands