It took a long time ago on my grave As the judge comes down with the gavel And the rain did look like the blood on the ground He shook the grass and the leaves and the gravel
You try, you try, you try You try to find the short way home Oh the roots, bloody knees, and the bent-over trees They try to find the way back home
Familiar signs, the resolight Begs to be here one by one And your fate's been sealed by the turning of the wheel And the setting of the evening sun
So you crawl on by the light of the moon Across the leaves and over the hours And you pray that you make it to the breaking of the day You try to find the way back home
And you try, you try You try to find the short way home Oh the roots, bloody knees, and the bent over trees You're tryin' to find your way back home
Mother why'd you have to go and clip my golden wings? I'm gonna fly off this building all the same. You put me down in the darkest well, and still that water stings I'm gonna fly off this building all the same. [x2]
Mother why'd you have to go and clip my dirty wings? I'm gonna fly off this building all the same. You put me down in the deepest well, and still that water stings I'm gonna fly off this building all the same.
It took a long time ago on my grave As the judge comes down with the gavel And the rain did look like the blood on the ground It shook the grass and the leaves and the gravel
And you try, you try, You try to find the short way home. Oh the roots, bloody knees, and the bent-over trees. You try to find the way back home. You try to find the way back home. You'd die to find the short way home.