Husk

[Verse 1]

You were brave as a chessboard queen

But the shoe didn’t fit your feet

Cover the mouth of the Earth’s great cough

You can’t always get what you want



[Verse 2]

So you lie in the driveway snow

'Til you’re white as a bed sheet ghost

Bathed in the light of a star long dead

No one can tell how it ends



[Chorus 1]

If you’re blind to love

Why don't you say it, love?

It doesn’t amount to much

You're a grail without the blood

If you’re blind to me

Why do you say you see?

Shouldn’t it always be

Clear to us?



[Verse 3]

Did you carve out a place in the world?

Were your white little bones of a bird

Crushed like a husk in the Great Deceiver's mouth?

I hope it’s all working out



[Chorus 2]

Cause if you’re blind to love

You shouldn’t try to love

It doesn’t amount to much

You're a holy with no ghost

And if you’re blind to me

Why do you try to see?

Shouldn’t it always be

Obvious?



[Outro]

Proud like a hunter with a bow

Cowed like a prisoner below

I don’t sleep so well

I woke up here on the crowded seats of a bus

I was a husk