The Softest Nights Are Never Silent Lyrics

She used to say that the cold would fade away

There was certainty in the words she spoke

I wonder now if she'd even want to know

Where all her broken vessels go

Would she chase us still, while the shadows creep?

I'm limping back to those words on bloody feet

When I left the cage and the chain for all it kept me from

I didn't think the fear would follow

Horizons hide in a world built for giants

If there's warmth out here, then I can't find it

I used to think that starving was part of it,

My need to be so much farther from the stretched out spaces in between the walls

I was wrong

It's all too bright, too violent

Even the softest nights out here are never silent

She used to stare at the barren sky for hours

I never saw what she did, but now I know

Of the beauty there, in the snow tracing the border between earth and sky

I am no guardian, just shattered stone

I'm breaking teeth, wearing feet down to bone

And as the sun starts to set, I creak a song to myself

I feel the distance from home sinking in again

I'm on my own

She had these eyes

One of earth and one of sky

Partitioned fragments of motion and stagnance

Gleaming side to side.

And if here is where I die

I'll have that image in my head as I expire

But in this haze, I catch a glimpse

A silver glisten in the dark and if I listen hard, I swear I can hear her say

"Hey,

I'll take you to a place where you can finally sleep"