With your new capricious home to keep you company You're drifting from my sight You were caught in the gears So you bought into all of what you once feared
We left our jobs and turned to carving porcelain Built a faucet, that was all But you brought it back with you To remind you that there's hope in what you can't do
I swore I saw the Virgin glimmer in the ground Through the gypsum underneath So I dug through the beds And wore away my fingers in the process
Could you see I was a forgery? Is that why you strained me out And put the good parts in the ground?
And every empty honor That I clung to as my own Was calling you its home I just want to be your home
But all the conflagrations That argued us to sleep Were somehow not as steep As what you wanted us to be
When all our stonewashed anger left us in that car The temperature changed And we could not relate So we traded for a sadness we could translate
You were named after a shipwreck And that's all you ever knew But the same old wind that left you cold Was leaving me, too
I've been breaking into foundries In the middle of the night Just to see if I could build something To keep you upright
I was telling lies to give myself a little time And you were calling through the cracks that I was right.
Must have been something that you said That put that vision in my head But now I'm coming home to all my new regrets