Safe House Lyrics

When peace arrives

Smuggled here by a shadow

I wonder who will be left in the house

To open the door when the soft knock rattles the window

And words are exchanged

In tones so low

No one could possibly know

The way parents seem to a child

In the room down below

Language melted, the space between syllables wide and whiter than snow

When peace arrives

And there is no home

And no windows to peer in

On tiptoe

And no curtains to see through to shadows

And the shadow has gone

And in the old barn

On the edge of the lawn barely visible

Another door is open

And leads to a room so dark

Its borders seem to pulse

Peace will know it has arrived

And that this is a house