BATTLE OF MICE LYRICS

1. The Lamb And The Labrador

All your sympathy’s gone
Onto needles and pins

And the scratch on your cheek
When the dye is cast red

Pillars melted to wood
Shallow breath that you held

Fevered threat in the ground
Home ward memories expound

All the fevering pitch
When you’re breath is run raw

And the song of the strays
In the scratch on your cheek

2. Bones In The Water

Every time i think of pushing you down the stairs
I lick
My lips
But don't be upset, it's the only way i know how
To show you that i really care
I lie to you every chance that i get
And i make it just close enought to the truth
That you go for it every time
But don't misunderstand
I leave fingerprints outside of your window
In the shapes of positive messages
I've got a present for you
It's made from pieces of my skin
Trailing slices of pale light
Thread and needle closing in
Raking window from the pane
And ready to commit
Sway back through gray beams of slate
On fingers cold and thin

3. Sleep And Dream

In a tiny little cave
A dog is sleeping on his back
Iron chains around his leg
But he's purring loud enough to snap
I see blood around his snout
A smile that's bigger than his mouth
They come to hurt him every day
To stomp him back into a crouch
They will never quite cut through
Cause he's got a little piece of you
The time gets longer every day
But he sits there smiling in his cave

They will never quite cut through
we've have
a little
piece of you

And all the spite you ever spate
betrays your monument to fate

Fall asleep and dream.

Salt in your skin
That leaves a small scar
It sits there in time
A red shiny star

Salt in your skin
That leaves a small scar
It sits there murdering time
A red shiny star

Shadow sweet in your bones
Helps to know what you said
The hand on your skin
Brings a war to your face

Fall asleep and dream now
Windows are made in your sighs
The piece you had hid to hide
The cave walls high in your mind

Fall asleep and dream now
Your heart is ready to die
Your jaws open wide
Windows are made in your mind

4. Salt Bridge

I watch the hands move across your face
If i were only big
Moving slow
The longest race
The sharpest teeth sink
And i can't move and i can't see
The needle clicks through all that lace
And when the first leaf starts to shake
And make it's way to shield the ground
Diamonds fall over your face
Know that i'd give every drop of hate
Just to see your trembling hands
Wave goodbye again
I remember all those sounds
I used to make
So fake and loud
To cover things i should have learned
The deepest hum that you engage
This dark red river down my drain
And all the sons that take your place
They all, fall, down
Read your dream

5. Wrapped In Plain

She walked
Her head hung down
Watching her feet
Move on their own
Restless hands
Grasped at things
No one else could see
Dark circles watched
Her eyes grow wide
Guardians of her gaze
The high red flush
Of something wrong
Stained the hills of her face
Midsummer blazed
Her rotting cage
Death took his hat off
At her grave
Scarecrows drape the colored page
marking giant mistakes
Getting stronger in pain of
These special things
All wrapped in plain
All wrapped in plain
No one saw
Pale shoulders shake
Passed over for
Shiner things
Brighter birds
With bigger wings
Took up all of the cracks
Nothing left for the faint
This poisoned mouse
With paws on stars
Mottled gray fur
Ignored
She quickly dreams of fall
Where brighter flowers dive
And bend
Quicksand's
Right hand
Weighs in
Low weathers
Greatest friend
Wet breath in shallow lungs
That drown
Her hands
Like doves
Scarecrows drape
The colored page
Gaping selfish mistakes
Grinning wider each day
Growing stronger in pains
Of these special things
All wrapped up in plain
An imbeciles glory day
Spitting coins at the fade
Of these special things
Twilight final soft claim
All wrapped up in plain
All wrapped up in plain
These special things

6. At The Base Of The Giant's Throat

Skyscrapers left in shade
The numbers add up to your chest
Nightmares cling to strange walls
The sun will see you now -- it's the next day
Speaking through squares
Hiding faces strange and bright
Arrest near your neck before
You can hear leaves breathe
Just listen
Just listen
Stolen trees cemented in
A quiet place where plymouths ring
Curtains fall and bruises form
But you can hear leaves
Breathe if you just listen
Little wings play down the street
Our faces squeezed in glass and tin
Inanimate objects snatch at your skin
But you can hear leaves breathe if you just listen
One hand on your neck
While the other fumbles through
Broken exchanges in back rooms
You thin sin
Wave oceans aside
I made space in my night
Resolved to turn it into lines
Your fingers must get tired
And drones make you wild
Why don't you wear
Your sleepless smile
Pointed at me for awhile
Smoke around the giants neck
That makes the clouds turn red
Tell me where have you been
A day where clouds
Turn to fray
Wings of smoke
Down the street
Where your sleepless smile runs
Skyscrapers left in shade
The numbers eye your throat
Snatching skin and thin skin
No streets unclean no sheets unclean
No smiles makes you crazy
It's in your lines
The sleepless snatching thin skin seas
There is no sheets unclean
No smiles no night why
All crashing screams the sheets
(Wave oceans aside)
Unclean you make me grave it's in your own design
(I made space in my night)
Wave oceans aside
I made space in my night
Snatching skin and thin skin
No streets unclean no sheets
Unclean no smiles
Makes you wild
You're on no streets
Unclean no sheets
Unclean and smiles at
Wave oceans aside
I made space in my night night
Now you own the sleepless snatching thin skin seas

7. Cave Of Spleen

I chipped my tooth
I have a windows in my skull
Wrapped up in explosive glass
The voices sing beneath
Bellow
I've never seen it unravel
So fast in such small hands
The secrets stick down in your throat
The crimes that make the time go fast
I slip out of this place
The glass cuts through my scabs
Its never been so mean to know
It all has to come out
It all has to come out
My mouth is full of blood
I hang on to every word
Little claws down in my neck
I've never seen a sky so blue
My mouth is full of blood
But i saved some i or you
All my copper glasses rusted
This is not the end of the last word
I programmed it
And i'm bleeding through
My vein has got the best of me
And all my proper wrist
Hanging on disgrace
I hear the footsteps
Creeping on the stairs below
Wrapped up in explosive glass
Voices sing beneath below
I programmed it
This can't be every thing i've saved
My mouth is full of blood
And i saved some for you
All your copper glass has rusted
This just can't be all that i have made
I save some for you
But i'm not enough
And all the time has been the end
And this just can't be all that i have saved
And i programmed it
My glass is broken
And i slip out on the stairs





BATTLE OF MICE LYRICS