Thousand Secrets

Blue light breaking on the window glass

And a cool wind shaking in the long, wide grass

The ocean speaks the language of the dawn

Thin sails rising in the autumn sky

And the old man singing while the knots untie

I look back and all the ships are gone

No one's gonna know

The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow

There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside

And it's a thousand secrets wide

He sold white carnations in a neon bar

And when he turned sixteen he bought a stolen car

And drove all the way to Dallas in the dark

Well, I could fall in love but I'm so damn young

And I try to hold on but then the quick rains come

And every time they fall it breaks my heart

No one's gonna know

The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow

There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside

And it's a thousand secrets wide

For every broken branch

There's a mile of fallen leaves

And no one knows the river flows a thousand miles deep

I wanna walk on water, wanna walk downstream

I wanna walk back to New Orleans

With the crash of broken glass all in the yard

I wanna quit this city in the midnight hush

Of a pale moon shining on a southbound bus

You never know what you love until you lose it hard

No one's gonna know

The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow

There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside

And it's a thousand secrets wide

There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside

And it's a thousand secrets wide

And it's a thousand secrets wide

And it's a thousand secrets wide