Excandescent - Jawbox

Tracing oil trails and streaks of black

Serpentine, to certainties that never leave you

Impact at the start of the escape

Far away, where no-one's coming to relieve you

Excandescent star, swallowing your heart

Excandescent star, swallowing your heart

Betrayal’s bible is handmade and heavyweight

And best of all it’s open ended

Excandescent star, swallowing your heart

Excandescent star, swallowing your heart

Why do you stay if nothings left to save?

Eyewitness at the gate there to validate

The claim that faith is not too far from fate

Sealed to the page, the place you might be safe

The weapon comes to cure the wound;

it’s overdue

You keep the evidence to prove it

And read the scraps like clinging leaves of tea

But all I see is accidents, so rise above it

Excandescent star, swallowing your heart

Excandescent star, swallowing your heart

Why do you stay if nothings left to save?

Eyewitness at the gate there to validate

The claim that faith is not too far from fate

Sealed to the page, the place you might be safe

Is this superstition the one thing to add up?

Your trust that everything will turn to dust

Is evidence enough

Betrayal’s bible is handmade and heavyweight

And best of all it’s open ended

Why do you stay if nothings left to save?

Eyewitness at the gate there to validate

The claim that faith is not too far from fate

Sealed to the page, the place you might be safe