Red Letter

Falling back asleep
With a memory buried deep
We are one in all we are
Here and now sit fixed apart
Someone tell me, lay it out
Where we went wrong in our doubt
Holding hands here with our sons
Slow bleed for everyone
Singing grace and peace to you
Mirrored fangs and helpless youth
We were once a righteous few
Look deep and spit the truth
What have we become
What have we become

Sister my sister, do you feel something yet
Wherein little or plenty - bowing down nonetheless
My brother dear brother, hold fast in the midst
All is working against you, but you've got confidence
It's the taste on my tongue
It's the tang in my mouth
Doubled down on the cause
Little room for the doubt
It's the body of bread
It's the blood and the wine
We were once a righteous few
Look deep and spit the truth
What have we become
What have we become

So my time has come I'll lay my weapons down
Every avenue run dry in simple blank
And I can't wait to find the reasons
And I can't wait to feel the seasons
On my face, on my face, on my face

So I'll bend it till it breaks right through and through
Every step we took a complex faded gray
And I can't wait to know the present
But I can wait for this dear heaven
In my veins, in my veins, in my veins

And all we have is dust
Running fingers through the sand
And mediocrity is comin right for me
It's in my hands
In my hands, in my hands
In my hands, in my hands
In my hands, in my hands
In my hands, in my hands

Quietly in the company of my oldest friends
God we know so much about each other
Through the night and the break of dawn
Thinking about how we plan our next adventure
Oh it's something I know so well
Every thought and the way we just get one another
It's time-tested and wholly true, but I'd be damned if I never knew
Your embrace, your fearless right
In this cold god-forsaken, friendless night

Least they're here within reach
Like strangers on a busy street
I can see and I can know
I can choose to let it show
I want you to stab me in the back and tell me you're comin over here tonight
I wanna see the ugly side of you
But I'd be damned if I never knew
Your embrace, your fearless right
In this cold, god-forsaken, friendless night

How I know so well, it seems
The space behind my eyes
Every breath my company
Familiar and I
And my body waiting here
So still and patiently

Now I see, it was me
Who couldn't be who you see
Past my eyelids

Each new day this canvas blue
And we dance among my skin
Screaming silence, cold-tipped nose
The body that I'm in
Here I wait so patiently
My restless heart it beats
Just to know you, feel you near
Right where my eyelids meet

Now I see, it was me
Who couldn't be who you see
Past my eyelids

Cityscapes and skylines
Running circles round this heart of mine
You don't know the first thing
And you don't know about me
Dreamy days and starry nights
Painted canvas in a brilliant light
You don't know the first thing
And you don't know about me

Oh it's dust dust dust
Dust is all we are
Oh it's dust dust dust
Dust is all we are

Flickin' shows most every night
Muted pictures and a beaming light
They don't know the first thing
And they don't know about me
And I, see my neighbor and wave hello
And we lock our doors and keep to our own
We don't know one thing
We don't know one thing

Oh it's dust dust dust
Dust is all we are
Oh it's dust dust dust
Dust is all we are

Do you know me better than what I've known
Do you see me clearer
Do you know me better or at all
Do you know me