As the Ivy Dies and Grows Lyrics

The ivy comes to a head

On the windowpanes

And with the brittle, chipping dead

Then blows from gray to green

Then back again, it rots at the seams

By the building's ivy, you walk behind me slow

Flatten footprints in the grass that fit in the snow

When I turn around, you hide, but still ask me where to go

Don't know you or your face but still I want to get to know

Why I lead you as the ivy dies and grows

And when you press on its roots

Pain shoots from its veins

And to your legs and your boots

And when I call you shield your face

By that time the ivy's crowded the space

By the building's ivy, I feel your breath on my neck

And I keep on walking cause' I'm afraid to check

Why the ivy's on the ground and growing and grabbing at my feet

Overgrowth mirrors exhaustion, bars me from taking seat

Aching kneecaps persist as ivy grows

The ivy comes to a head

Cracking windowpanes and follows me until I'm dead

When that is I cannot see

But you have a hold on me

Cannot shed what I've received

By the building's ivy you grab me by the hair

And the briars cut my skin and start to tear

At my temples, fingers, toes, and chest, and the ivy's all I know

Cradled by the grass and brick and snow

Seated still in tacit silence as the spring winds blow

Regardless of whether the ivy dies and grows