For So Long Now - Brazos

For so long now I’ve been eating from your mouth that my insides are sore and

stuffed

For so long now god i know I don’t know

I listen i leave, I break like the twigs on a tree

I know but I don’t know

You make me so sure like nothing matters

You make me so sure

We’re dwarfs, tables crush us under this blanket in the storm

It’s warm and the tin roof above us fills with summer hail

The jungle all covered in ice our words are there too

They dangle above us, like dusty chandeliers in a colonial house

There must not be too many hours left here for us now

Midnight arrives and we remember the day we met

Riding the steamer away from port

Passing mines and bear back workers on the shore

Every night we return to walk the black tunnel

And pick diamonds from the wall

Sabotage and since then every moment with you i claw

This world has been a dream

Like gently running fingernails along our front porch screen

What have we done but live here naturally

Our fortunes are made

Tomorrow we carry them home

Across that great blue body with fingers tied

In knots and bows and little monsters in our throats

We take them home

For so long now

I know I don’t know