secrets cellar door

Radical Face

Drawn into the frost on the glass
Was a map pointing to my secret hiding place
It lead you to the tree with the split in
It s trunk on the way into your family s yard
In that tree you saw
I brought the dog back to life

I watch you from the branches
While you stared from the ground
With a look I couldn t understand
So I said: leave me alone
If your only words are ugly ones
And you just smiled and said
Come and show me how it s done

You dug up your old bird
And you held her to your chest
As I breathed life back into her lungs
And she blinked and flapped her wings
She sang a familiar song
Before she took to the air
And cut a path into the woods

And then I cried
Because all my life
I have known something was off
But you just shrugged
And said: it ain t just you

Slipping on the pavement
Where we ran from the ghosts
That you saw behind the cellar door
That s the way that you showed me
That I wasn t quite alone
That you d also touched the dead before