A mirror, a ghost
from A mirror, a ghost EP by Fireworks Night
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lyrics
We’ve been friends since we had our first teeth
Since the rivers ran low and let the shadows of the leaves
Dance up to our eyes
And I remember your eyes
They were beautiful
And I remember your eyes
They were beautiful
And I long for them now
As you lie unconscious in this dull, white room
Head held three pillows high
A tube in your mouth like a fish on a line
A tube in your mouth like a fish on a line
And those moments move round and round and round just behind my eyes
And words are stirred up, up, up, up, up…
From the pit of my heart
To collapse in my throat
And I jump at a sound
Just a twitch of a toe
And there’s stuck in my mind
A quiet prayer for us both
But how do I ask for help
From a mirror, from a ghost
That I have never felt
That I have never seen
The night had passed better than most
We’d grinned and grinned
Been tender as a pair of pups
No talk of trouble
No thoughts of ghosts
Of blood and headlights, teeth scattered on a rainy road
Until I looked too long in the mirror
On you asleep in the back of the car
Until I heard a sound I’d never heard before
Bone on glass and glass tearing skin
I saw you buckled like a newborn calf wrapped in
A metal wreck
Gnarled and glistening
Then how the silence, it seemed to thunder in
And here we are…
And here we are…
Please open your eyes
Oh open those eyes…
Show me a miracle yet
Show me a sign
That the things you believed in
Said gave life a meaning
Resurrection, redemption
Oh show me
That they are not lies
Oh I’ll be wrong if you can be right
I’ll be wrong…
Because it is a crime that I can not atone for
Without a flicker, a flutter, a tremor of your eyes
Oh your eyes were beautiful
Oh your eyes are beautiful
Since the rivers ran low and let the shadows of the leaves
Dance up to our eyes
And I remember your eyes
They were beautiful
And I remember your eyes
They were beautiful
And I long for them now
As you lie unconscious in this dull, white room
Head held three pillows high
A tube in your mouth like a fish on a line
A tube in your mouth like a fish on a line
And those moments move round and round and round just behind my eyes
And words are stirred up, up, up, up, up…
From the pit of my heart
To collapse in my throat
And I jump at a sound
Just a twitch of a toe
And there’s stuck in my mind
A quiet prayer for us both
But how do I ask for help
From a mirror, from a ghost
That I have never felt
That I have never seen
The night had passed better than most
We’d grinned and grinned
Been tender as a pair of pups
No talk of trouble
No thoughts of ghosts
Of blood and headlights, teeth scattered on a rainy road
Until I looked too long in the mirror
On you asleep in the back of the car
Until I heard a sound I’d never heard before
Bone on glass and glass tearing skin
I saw you buckled like a newborn calf wrapped in
A metal wreck
Gnarled and glistening
Then how the silence, it seemed to thunder in
And here we are…
And here we are…
Please open your eyes
Oh open those eyes…
Show me a miracle yet
Show me a sign
That the things you believed in
Said gave life a meaning
Resurrection, redemption
Oh show me
That they are not lies
Oh I’ll be wrong if you can be right
I’ll be wrong…
Because it is a crime that I can not atone for
Without a flicker, a flutter, a tremor of your eyes
Oh your eyes were beautiful
Oh your eyes are beautiful
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from A mirror, a ghost EP,
released November 10, 2008
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