Hands Like Houses

There’s better ways for us to waste our days, Than returning stares that we borrowed for too long. For too long, swallowed up by an empty page. What starvation feeds you, devourer Of the words of a thousand authors and poets, alike? Wells have emptied to whet...

I wish I’d just stood and let the sun creep through me. Instead of my attempts to build slingshots, spools and sinkers to bring in the sky. Inventions out of sticks and stones, a crown dusted off from beneath the bones. A white liar, protector of our hearts an...

It starts with a spark, a breath and a moment of still, A flicker, a glow, as the oxygen spills through a delta of spindles and stone, Kindled from nothing in a whisper of smoke. There a gift ignites; a cursive though takes flight, And there's a dancer, t...

Pry the darkness from my eyes Divided, let the light seep in Trees devoid of branches and hollow hives Endless black and empty beds It's not the same, something's changed I never used to be able to see past the trees A thousand unfamiliars are lying thi...

Father, we fled your house of grey. We ran from home to seek a place where our bodies would never grow. Dreamer, child, be cautious of this world. She has an appetite for boys and girls and she’s hungry for your soul. Little boys with dreams of paper plan...

Wrong place, wrong time, wrong side of the tracks to be Split lip, chipped teeth and a taste of tar and concrete Still in a daze, head in a haze, somebody please put me back to sleep Put me back to sleep, yeah I'm slipping away, starting to fade, circling...

I sit in the back of my throne Breathing in second hand smoke You got me at the end of my rope Quietly hopin' you, hopin' you choke Biting down on my tongue Till I can taste, I can taste blood My mouth is like a loaded gun Screaming at the top of my, to...

If I'm bred for failure, just tell me once 'Cause I don't feel like I'm meant to just survive If I have no future, if it's already paying for the past Just give me the pieces so I can call them mine I don't care if I leave empty handed I will learn if I...

For better or for worse Our vision of the future's getting blurred Between the black and white Naming every shade of grey has left us colourblind We are all for none and none for all We are the sickness and the symptom and the cure We are all for none a...

It's never ending a season I can't shake, a foreign winter a curse I can't escape I feel the winter burying my bones a core reminder that I'm so far from home I know we're worlds apart Seasons stitched together somehow What's it like where you are?...

We get in our own way, tripping on our feet Filling up our heads too much with words too hard to speak Drowning in a place, where the night can not escape Commit ourselves into the depths, exposed against a page Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds A...

I won't ask for a second I won't ask for a chance I won't look to the heavens I found hell where I stand And I feel like I am fighting a lost cause Just to be heard I can't hear from the howling Drowning every single word Let me count the ways you kil...

Is this the edge of the world? We chased the horizon down ‘til it hung beneath our feet. Now I’m drifting blind. All I know is we can’t move closer. I’ve never seen the lights of the north, The constellations are so unfamiliar. We followed far, as far...

Wandering, weightless I’m empty, I’m faded Stumbling, nameless I’m falling, failing, faithless… I won’t fade away to nothing If I say a prayer for someone who’ll say a prayer for me, when I ask myself, if the life I lead’s the price I have to pay?...

Here I am, the hammer strikes one, two, three I'm impatiently tapping my feet In a murmuring room full of critics and fakers all waiting to take their seat. The focus of the room, all bating breath Waiting on a single word that could spill from my mouth...

A silver line, a disease on the horizon, A whistling in the trees - it marches on It's like a tide - impatient and insincere A threat born on the wind - it marches on A weight on the air I feel it in the silence Take a second to listen The earth starts...

The edge it calls to me from the grey I don't know what I will say and I'm afraid of being oblivious to oblivion I'll say a prayer under my breath And hope you'll hear If it's my time to go I don't want to look back I'm waiting for something Like a...

You're puttin' me together and tear me apart You're always gonna be the other half of my heart I've been hard on myself, but don't say you're sorry Just say anything, I'm not ready for lonely Tomorrow's always better than yesterday, it never comes too far...

The disconnect Is welling up, And good intentions are not enough. Your words are weary, Their hearts are strained, And idle vows find the deepest pains. I’m sick, I’m tired Of hollow hope, Of promises, empty, Your way with words, They’re feeding bac...

We don't belong here. In a way we are all connected, threaded together. In a way we are all suspended, bound going nowhere. Wake up, walk on the wires. Defeat and define. Wake up, evolve and escape, Unravel, unmake yourself. We speak in tongues...

We're all messed up so we just pretend The world won't stop spinning past the end The one we've got is not what we're used to I can't pretend that it doesn't plague me I can't pretend that it hasn't changed me I can't pretend that I'm not afraid of the e...

I wonder, can you daydream at night? Lying awake, I’ve had too much time. I’m watching picture shows in the shadows, ‘Dance for the crowd tonight.’ Imagination is such a vivid place to hide ‘Til sleep takes over you. Through silent homes, the lights a...

I'm just interference Noise and whispers A shadow on the light I'm dust on the record Stop a static, a click, a compromise A discord, a spark, a silhouette A shady ghost, an echo of what's left Help me touch the ground 'Cause all that's heavy in me s...

[Verse 1] Digging down, digging down, digging down in the dirt Sweat it out, sweat it out till it doesn’t burn In the dark, in the dark it can hear when I breathe Now it’s closing in on me [Pre-Chorus 1] It’s getting louder now, it’s getting louder now...

How could I miss you If I never met you If that road turns another way And never looked back There's a feeling overwhelming Like I couldn't belong Without this point of contact Everything would be wrong Stop-motion on the ceiling, skip frames And I'm...

A hopeless romantic, self-medicated on reality; A misunderstanding is all that anyone can see in me. Pulling up the floor to go deeper down, tearing at the soil to find the ground. I’m trying to find myself, coming back to the same words to try to tell...

Another man stumbles Another one falls And one of us crumbles Another one just dance it off We suffer in silence One by one we break We only know violence But what a difference a calm and steady hand can make (A steady hand can make) Now we're broken...

This is happiness to be everything at once Be unblinded, be unlearned, be unbridled and unburned Heavy on our heels, the rocky ground we leave behind Tassels streaming from our necks, we cast a wake amidst the wind We're the roamers to the road, barebacked, s...

I'm tired of being what you want me to be Feeling so faithless Lost under the surface I don't know what you're expecting of me Put under the pressure Of walking in your shoes [Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow] Every step that...

There's no more wind to be found in the sails Hands full of fallen stars and comet tails Rivers of sand unentwine through my hands To know what they've seen, well, my burdens all pale I'll make an hourglass from my fingers I know I'm only passing through...

Hold your breath, baby. We have to make our hearts sit still. Hold your tongue, honey, The things we know could unleash hell. Patch me up, my skin is so tight around my chest, my heart is leaping out. I feel my imagination playing like a movie in my eyes, It’...

I could have just held my tongue I should have just filled my lungs Breathe in, breathe out and repeat You know me well Or at least in as far as I can tell You should have known better Than telling me I should have held it together for us When I'm bare...

Be honest with yourself Do you see in your reflection someone else You're fogging up the glass, and looking for direction So close you can't see past I'll make amends, I'll make believe I'll make my mind, I'll make you see I'll take a chance, I'll take...

To know your every detail is a lifetime, a story to tell with a touch. Every move is a reaction, every kiss is a reason, a rush. You're my muse, and you're my masterpiece, my canvas and my chemistry, you're magic and you're mystery, my haven, you're my heav...

I'll give you misery, 'cause you know what it feels like I'll give you happiness, 'cause you want it all to yourself I'll give you all of me, it'll take just a moment And of our everything, but all you get is what you see You turned my insides out You tu...

Streets, these visions, an origami city folding in. Construction, creation, we are architects and kings, Lifting street stones from their beds to build these homes from memory, As we’re tangled in our sleep. We were young together, but I’ve grown ancient. Cra...

There’s no injection for this, the aching in your lungs. So bite down, but even vipers mind the venom lacing their tongues. Puncture wounds and almost no colour in our skin. And we smashed every vial of the cure. Aren’t we vicious when we’re backed against...

Piling stones to guide the sea, To say we stopped the tide, but we We never did (did we) We never did (did we) We build as only children know to build We made a way where there's a will No slowing down or standing still Innocent and reckless How did...

You used to know so well those weathered hands, When they were gentle, when the brought the colour to your cheeks. They still do, but not the same, because they turned their back on you, And when she's hiding at your feet, you know you'll stay. These sent...

I wade through the earth, Sowing my own, bound up in discords Spread in the stones, Planting deep into ready fears. Soak in these heavy rains, Break from your chrysalis beneath the clay. Though I left you behind, I'm all the while, wanting, to make my way home...

The gasoline is mixing with the oxygen. In this carousel, the silence is so surreal. I’ve been misled through empty streets to the heart that never beats Of a body that I can’t keep. We’re blessed with these horrors for highways. This city turns, no lon...

I'm told that love is golden Something to hold when the going's tough And I've seen, what love can mean when Someone believes in you more than you ever could I felt that same, same rhythm and the same, same rush Got that same, same feeling from the same...

What if I told you, that we're all the same If no one is equal, in this endless game What if I told you, it's out of your hands And after all is said and done, and nothing has changed - We all want the same? Here we go again The future has failed us It...

I thought I saw a girl brought to life, She was warm, she came around And she was dignified. She showed me what it was to cry. I couldn't be the man to adore. You don't seem to know, Or seem to care what my heart is for. But I don't know you anymore....

Watchmaker, teach me the ways. I want to learn the secrets and the sciences of seconds, The methods to dull my ears to the sound. [Matty Mullins:] Teach me how to rewind, rewind, So I can relive every second, Minute, all I missed oh. I'm always focused on t...

I'm down below where the floor is out of focus, pent up and played down, rained in and worn out, picking away at the studs in the boards. They're all too familiar. I've been here before. The air is like lead and I've swallowed what I've said. I'm a...

This is where we fall, sleepers scattered in the soil A finger deep, dragged through the ground A blessed thought in harrowed halls. We could think of nothing else but what our patch of earth contained, Reminded by our dirt-stained clothes of planted poss...