Echoes As Words Lyrics

We don't know where to go

Silence sleeps like Christmas wreaths

We hang up and then throw

Away in black bags lined along the road

Can't perceive a distance

Can't perpetuate a meaningless existence

Insisting that these seeds we plant will grow

Fall to your knees and try to stand

Stalling and reeling to get by or at least to understand

When did these echoes take the place of words

Repeating everything I thought I heard

From all concerned, concrete to the absurd

Mistaking echoes for words

I do not have a map

Administering my misery like water from a tap

Whose blackened faucet hides the spring to a trap

Can't believe a witness

Can't perpetuate a meaningless existence

Insisting that this cold spell will snap

Fall down and grieve and try to stand

Stalling and beating my head to get by or to understand

When did these echoes take the place of words

Repeating everything I thought I heard

From all concerned, concrete to the absurd

Mistaking echoes for words

After the ice storm lashed tree trunks to welcome mats

You know we'll be happy someday

After piling up endlessly, the sediment and the debris

We know we'll be happy someday

We're gonna be happy someday

We're gonna be happy someday

We're gonna be happy someday

We're gonna be happy someday

We're gonna be happy someday