The Herd - My Sister's Palace lyrics

My sister I hear you calling
You feel your world has fallen
Gather your possessions
Muster up your strength and walk away

My brother now I'm pleading
My sister needs to leave now
Let her leave with safety
No need for more chasing again

Sister mother daughter
Not treated how you oughta
Cut off by a river someone burnt the bridge
Random acts of malice
From up inside your palace
Wall's too tall for scaling
Who's gonna do the saving
I wait for your arrival
To know that you're surviving
Smoke I see arising way upon horizon
Far from other shores escaping any laws
Get into that boat
With your hands upon those oars

None of this shit made sense
All of the biblical rules
That it went against what are fences for
To keep the trouble out right?
What if the trouble is in
Who will save them then?
And the walls are thin
They hear him go at it again
Quietly sobbing
Her brother his holding her hand
They dare not turn on the light
For fear of worsening the fight
So alone and frozen, both eyes open
Every sound magnified in the
Dead of the night
Their mum pleads and begs him please
Tears wiped away with pyjama sleeves
Life went about it's business
Of bearing it's teeth
Big brother being brave gets up
Little sister says stop
In the kitchen a glass drops
As a kid, dad's so big
Enough to drag em all down
In the hole he digs

She is so withdrawn in class
But there's a world in her head
That they never thought to ask
I doubt she would tell them anyway
I asked her the other day
Are your parents going to the PTA
She said they'd gone away
Something volatile behind her eyes
That makes them nervous
And they haven't got the strength to ask
To scratch the surface so she sit's in class
Drawing rowboats in silence
Drifting away from a tower
Rising from an island
Her brother's got her back
But he's not always within range
So she fights her own battles
Girls think she's strange
No teachers that I've asked would
Even know her name and would barely notice
If she never even came to class
I wish that her shame would pass
And mine would dissolve as fast
As the dreams of six year olds
She is so much older than her tender years
I wish I could do something to end the tears
Her eyes like a bottomless lake
Deep and clear
I wish I could do something to end the fear