Dawn will open eyes to another bitter sunrise
Gone are the maps that take you home
And we are the many that sleep beneath the naked night sky
In shelters that we built in the fallout zone
Splinters feel long when they’re digging in your side
Down by the cedar trees I did you walking there in my sleep
You woke me from my dreams and you said
Such a beautiful night but do be wary where you’re walking
For you might step right on the bones of the dead
They came by talking of you like one might talk of Armageddon
A wilted rose or a fight at a wedding
They came by talking of you like one might talk of indecision
But we are blood and kin, two birds on a limb
The winter is long but I know now
The sun is going to shine on our ordinary lives
On our ordinary lives, lying low with the nameless
It’s no ordinary life
Would you really want to blame us?