Sleeveless Hearts Lyrics

Your sleeveless heart

Lights its fire every night

Kindling conviction with some lines

From books you've barely put a crease in

Out in the dark

We down the last of your father's gin

I say "you nihilist, you'll know no consequence

Of needing nothing to believe in"

And you're born again

You got a soul to sell

You're so certain when it

Comes from someone else

Yeah, and you'll defend

Every single part

Scream until you mean it

From your sleeveless heart

I sleep till noon

And wake with smoke still in my skin

The embers cool

The revelations left me cold again

We're desperate to believe

In ourselves or anything—anything at all

But now they just sound hollow like an empty cathedral hall:

The echoes of our voices screaming

And we're born again

Got no souls to sell

When the sermons end

And we're orphaned to ourselves

Nothing to defend

Nothing to impart

Nothing but the heat

Of our sleeveless hearts

Hearts

Ahh

Ahh