Shearwater - Only Child lyrics

Your mother's milk your father's anger
The razor wire surrounding him and far below
Their droning engines you lay in bed
Blowing out stars

The masters of your lonely kingdom
Pulled you along with red-rimmed eyes
Through endless hours of drill and harness
Until you fell, surrendering

But still they never laid the gun down
Only child
They sit like lions in a sunbeam, only child
And never came down

Remember all the roads descending
To who you were, for blurred-out miles?
You smolder now coals and embers
Under the frost of indolence

I see you never lay the gun down, only child
You live your life behind a window
Only child
And as you barrel down a bloodline
Only child

Rise in the air over the mountains
Run like the days that cut them down
I see you now as you relive them
Break like a wave, dissembling

But when you're lying down among them
Only child
There is no sound to fill the silence
Only child forgive them
When you lay the gun down, only child
It's not surrendering - only you know how