Counterparts - Thread lyrics

Your words grew cold and incoherent and I’m
Searching for a fever that could
Lift me to the border of dementia
My eyes are tired from surveying
Everything we used to share
And I would sew them shut if
I had any strength inside
I remember every promise
I’ve carved them into my spine

I raise my hands to the sky
And beg that this won’t go unnoticed
Though I know some fires are
Not meant to burn
We are bred to flicker and fade
Not to retreat into the earth
Not to grow without remorse
We douse ourselves with the moisture
That we’ve drawn from the soil
We breed and unleash
We’re our own natural disaster
String me along like the thread
That binds your ribcage
Tie my limbs to the anchor
And be sure that I’m left alone to sink

I will shine brighter than the sun
I will forever be your torch cast me away
And in time I will set fire
To the fibers that connect us

My palms grow calloused from the cold
I need your touch to cauterize
Sustained by the flame of another
The embers begin to reignite

There’s a hole in the herd
That will never be filled
The anguish will fall through your fingers
As mankind manifests it'self
Through misfortune
I am alone and the world carries on
I am alone, the world carries on
And we don’t deserve a second thought