Future Islands - Swept Inside lyrics

By the shattered calls of a mother's arms
All swept-inside like the rosary
That fell away when her girlish charms
Cried out to take on motherhood
She wait's by the windowsill
All wrapped in white and puzzling
What happened to the child inside?
Who ran the streets and the days at night

She says, "Nothing seems the same"
And, "I can't change a thing"
"My body's like a wave, breaking to the sea"
She says, "Everything seems strange"
Locked behind the years
But life is ours to find
In the days at night

There passes a stranger every eve
Who walks himself on a silver leash
And in his head, the worlds asleep
Or, so the wrinkles in his hands believe

When he was young, he had a dream
To be a star, on the movie-screen
Now it all seems a silly lie
As he walks alone and, the days on fire

He says, "Nothing seems the same"
And, "I can't feel a thing"
"My bodies like a wave, caving in on me"
He says, "Everything seems strange"
Holding back the tears

And he smiles just like a child
In the days at night

Mother of song you'll find the right way
To cherish in dreams all of the small things
Father in time you'll find a world
That's so perfect and calm
All of the small things

Mother of song you'll find the right way
To cherish in dreams all of the small things

Father in time you'll find a world
That's so perfect and calm
All of the small things

Mother of song you'll find the right way
To cherish in dreams all of the small things

Father in time you'll find a world
That's so perfect and calm
All of the small things mother of song
You'll find the right way
To cherish in dreams all of the small things

Father in time you'll find a world
That's so perfect and calm
All of the small things