Passenger - Wicked Man's Rest lyrics

You can say I'm mad you can say I'm crazy
But, I'm only as bad
As the maker who made me

Sinner in the darkness liar in the church
Deaf man's silence the blind man's search
Teardrop falling memory recalling
Ghost in your dreams
And your secret recordings

Mad man's matches lump in your throat
The pea under your mattress
The hole in your coat

Singer with the sound down
Winner on the come down poet in the overcoat
Looking for a suntan

On his birthday prisoner on his first day
Tired of the new wave

I rise to meet you
As your trust dissolves to shame
Oh, this innocence has turned
And lost it's way retrace the footprints
Off the path from which I came
I'm the beast in you, the beast in me
(Which way are we going?
The doors close in an hour)

You can say I'm mad you can say I'm crazy
But, I'm only as bad
As the maker who made me

Needle for the user the pain in your chest
Beggar and the chooser the wicked man's rest

Fear in the stuntman sneer in the playground
Bottle in the hand of a dirty old drunk man

Leaf falling autumn calling
Dark clouds forming

I rise to meet you
As your trust dissolves to shame
Oh, this innocence has turned
And lost it's way retrace the footprints
Off the path from which I came
I'm the beast in you, the beast in me

Bite my nails right down to the skin
Where one trust ends and another lie begins

Patch over holes in my weakened heart
Which angels hold and devils pull apart

I'm the beast in you the beast in me
The bitterness, the jealousy
The part of you that never sleeps

(Are you my angel? Will we walk all night
Through solitary streets?)

And you hardly can imagine
What you never had before
And the reason that you're given
Still leaves you wanting more

And you hardly can imagine
What you never had before
And the reason that you're given
Still leaves you wanting more

I rise to meet you
As your trust dissolves to shame
Oh, this innocence has turned
And lost it's way retrace the footprints
Off the path from which I came
I'm the beast in you, the beast in me
The bitterness, the jealousy
The part of you that never sleeps