They were looking for a change of pace oh we’re all waiting for better days
well the kids were acting like animals and there were envious eyes in this big church hall
and tombstones in the cold take on new lives this house it smells of smoke in the winter time
and you were calling me with a brand new voice and so I scraped my knees when from this bed I rose
And you would destroy scraps of metal hearts pieces and pieces it was a good start
the path to this house it rose it bent we were never quite certain of what that meant
and the cemetery floor was strewn with leaves and the body underneath them they fed the trees
and you will take in all the pictures of these winter days but you won’t carry them to Massachusetts Bay
And in spite of the red coats we took a chance Because none of this is real if we don’t take a stand It’s a fragile earthly being that could break with a glance But none of this is real if we don’t take a stand And we swam to this ocean we took a leap and far from these shores there is saltwater in my lungs and we swam to this ocean we swam from home there are no familiar faces on these foreign island shores
And we fell silent and we felt the shame our fingers they bent and nothing will change
and we drowned in a bottle as big as an ocean it was all very subtle it was all very strange
And I’ll follow up/ oh why follow up and my heart beat beat beat it will sing sing sing sing sing