Manchester Orchestra - The Silence lyrics

Why do I deserve the science?
To feel better about you?
At a loss, I lost my cool
I denied that I found you
I tried to be a basket case
I did not surprise you
I'm trying to find a signal fire
Let me know when I should move

But, you, amplified in the silence
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Magnified in the science
Anatomically proved that you don't need me

(There is nothing you keep
There is only your reflection)
(There is nothing you keep
There is only your reflection)

Why do I desire the space?
I was mourning after you
I was lost and lost my shape
There was nothing I could do
I don't want to waste away
It was all I gave to you
Take me back and take my place
I will rise right up for you

But, you, amplified in the silence
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Magnified in the science
Anatomically proved that you don't need me

All the while you waste away, you're asking
"Did I really need another one
To take me down?"
Everybody knows it's something that you
Had to live with, darling
Nobody's gonna tear you down now
There is nothing you keep
There is only your reflection
(There is nothing you keep
There is only your reflection)

There was nothing but quiet retractions
And families pleading
"Don't look in that cabinet
There's far more bad than there's good
I don't know how it got there"
That was something your father
Had burned in me
Twenty hours out of Homestake eternity
"You can go anywhere but you
Are where you came from"
Little girl, you are cursed by my ancestry
There is nothing but darkness and agony
I can not only see
But you stopped me from blinking
Let me watch you as close as a memory
Let me hold you above all the misery
Let me open my eyes and be
Glad that I got here

There is nothing you keep
There is only your reflection