Shearwater - Backchannels lyrics
[Shearwater - Backchannels lyrics]
Oh, when you whistle down the wind
When you needle the dark with your mind
When you're firing volleys of words in an arc
When you're snuffing out all
That's still alive
And a droplet falls from the dropper's eye
Blooms like a wave
That slowly overruns all of your days
And slips the caul from off your eyes
You face alone
A fear that's dragging us all in it's wake
And you kill the lights
I know you're in the river now
And you yield to the water's embrace
And you lie like a stone on the banks
Giving out
As it carries off all of our names
I know that sound i know what it likes
I know it feels
Like all the guns of a battery trained
Right at your eyes
Because it's real because it pulls
A thread of slowly unraveling days
Annihilates your mother tongue
Your only light
But hold this sound follow it all the way
And put down the knife
The night is here
But still is spinning out stars in it's wake
And that stubborn light pools in your heart
Warm and nacreous, baby the milk of sighs
And dreams
When you needle the dark with your mind
When you're firing volleys of words in an arc
When you're snuffing out all
That's still alive
And a droplet falls from the dropper's eye
Blooms like a wave
That slowly overruns all of your days
And slips the caul from off your eyes
You face alone
A fear that's dragging us all in it's wake
And you kill the lights
I know you're in the river now
And you yield to the water's embrace
And you lie like a stone on the banks
Giving out
As it carries off all of our names
I know that sound i know what it likes
I know it feels
Like all the guns of a battery trained
Right at your eyes
Because it's real because it pulls
A thread of slowly unraveling days
Annihilates your mother tongue
Your only light
But hold this sound follow it all the way
And put down the knife
The night is here
But still is spinning out stars in it's wake
And that stubborn light pools in your heart
Warm and nacreous, baby the milk of sighs
And dreams