wye oak - before
This morning
I woke up on the floor
Thinking I have never dreamed before
And in the afternoon
The nagging thought
That I have never lived or else forgot
I tell you stories
But truth be told
I can't remember
What came before
That's how I know
That's how I know
And I am brand new
And not so whole
That's how I know
On paper
I'm waving with a grin
Proof of places I have never been
So I pull you forward towards this spot
That I have never seen or else forgot
I show you pictures
Of this very corner
But I can't remember
Who pushed the shutter
I have no answer
You say "No matter"
My only memory
Is coming home
That's how I know
This morning
I woke up on the floor
Thinking I have never dreamed before
wye oak - civilian
I am nothing without pretend
I know my faults
Can't live with them
I am nothing without a man
I know my thoughts
But I can't hide them
I still keep my baby teeth
In the bedside table with my jewelry
You still sleep in the bed with me,
My jewelry, and my baby teeth
I don't need another friend
When most of them
I can barely keep up with them
Perfectly able to hold my own hand,
But I still can't kiss my own neck
I wanted to give you everything
But I still stand in awe of superficial things
I wanted to love you like my mother's mother's mother did
Civilian, civilian.
wye oak - doubt
If you should doubt
My heart
Remember this
That i would lie to you
If i believed it was
Right to do
If you should think
Instead
I would forget
All the lives i save
Were not meant for me
And meant for you
That would be the test
I could not forgive
Only that
To doubt the only way
That what was true before
Is true today
What i have learned
Of you
Does not assure
You bow before my will
But i believed it then
Believe it still
Oh, i believed it then
Believed in still
wye oak - fish
They who made you, they made me too
Quiet like you, violent like you
I see you there, wild in my dreams
When you return, go to the sea
Air is your permanent struggle to breathe
When you return, go to the sea
Gone, gone, gone, you were never alone
I'll come home and raise you up to what's left
Gone, gone
Ghost of your voice finally rests
Open your eyes now to all that is left
Don't be afraid now, you won't need me
You'll be at peace now, at last from the sea
You will forget eventually
The life that you wasted that led to the sea
Gone, gone, gone, you were never alone
I'll come home and raise you up to what's left
Gone, gone, gone, you were never alone
I'll come home and raise you up to what's left
Gone, gone
They who made you, they made me too
I see they can make us again
wye oak - holy holy
Holy, holy, holy
There is no other story
Holy, holy, holy
It is blindly seeking my story
Holy, holy, holy
Would you like to know me?
And don't fall unless to free
And lonely seeking as they need
Further choice and secrets our heart stores
We are the only way in my real world
A children for the blessed, for an old count
A tri-star upon your mind in my delight
All they say is, can we contain this?
A human, you're his precious
And I, oh sure, know this
When everyone should know this
Holy, holy, holy
There is no other story
It is blindly seeking my story
We will be who we want to be
Further choice and secrets our heart store
We are the only way in my real world
A children for the blessed, for an old count
A tri-star upon your mind in my delight
Ah, you will be mine
Ah, you will be mine
Ah, you will be mine
Ah, you will be mine
Holy, holy, holy
There is no other story
Holy, holy, holy
wye oak - hot as day
When the sun is its most bright
Stare into its light
Do not close your eyes
Let it burn into your mind
Then look left, look right
Let it make you blind
Oh, isn't that a fright
Birth, to eternal night
That someone decides each day
When the days run long and late
Darkness brings me pause
While I lie awake
Sleeping's never long enough
Lying in this heat
I forget to breathe
Oh, isn't that the way
Sun hides himself away
Still, it's hot as day
wye oak - i hope you die
In the belly of the cloud
I was released
You were released
Was it deafeningly loud?
Or was it peace?
Sweet peace
All the streets
All filled with sound
Because it's right
It's for the best
Still I sense
Their judgment now
As we ask for a judgment
I can't sleep until I see you sleeping
Curse my mind and its all-seeing eye
Watch the rise
And wonder if you're breathing
Against your will
You are alive
Iron brick couldn't notch the wall
That we have made
That we have made
Still you fool yourself to ask
If you had stayed
If we had stayed
At the ringing of a bell
Or at the falling of a tree
If you think of it at all
Remember me
Trust me
I can't breathe until I see you waking
Watching as the scars fall from your eyes
Into a world that you may not remember
I hope you die
I hope you die
I hope you die
I hope you die
wye oak - glory
I see his eyes moving away from me
Oh no, is this another end of trust?
He knows he holds them in your nose for me
But what a gate is at the cost
We share the cold and grace of cousins
I want the rift I've seen somewhere else before
And as I wonder at his answers be
How mess in leaving out the door
I hid the trail, you have no story
How else my way is the requisition of faith
I hear his lips behind this GLORY
But all that I hear is me without faith
So from the fog of every morning
Until the heat of day is here
I watch the clock 'cause it comes backwards
I see the order run up you
I hid the trail, you have no story
How else my way is the requisition of faith
I hear his lips behind this GLORY
But all that I hear is me without faith
I hid the trail, you have no story
How else my way is the requisition of faith
I hear his lips behind this GLORY
But all that I hear is me without faith
wye oak - shriek
In the sea of an eye
I was possessed
Kiss the meaning goodbye
If you're wondering
And the key which would be dogging me
Flew out the back
When I see it, will I will I know
I fear no information
I'm following how it seems
In present dreams
An animal
Other words, speak unspeakable
So full is your affection
Come and see how it means
This present seems infallible
All the spills of the knife
It will outlast
The illusory gaze
And its wandering
And the freedom of a certainty
Observing your breath
When I see it, will I will I know
I fear no information
I'm following how it seems
In present dreams
An animal
Other words, speak unspeakable
So full is your affection
Come and see how it means
This present seems infallible