[Verse]
All I want is to hold a little piece
Of history between my teeth
It's cold and hard, like mother's grief
I risked it all just to feel my burning skin
The water's cool and closing in
The dark pool's black and eddying

[Chorus]
And the cloven tongue of fear
Licks softly at your ear at night
And the only risk you take
Is that all of your mistakes survive

[Verse]
All this time as I try to understand
I realise what I believe has moved again
And what are we if not bones and blood and teeth
We're memories in perfect films of who we've been

[Chorus]
And the cloven tongue of fear
Licks softly at your ear at night
And the only risk you take
Is that all of your mistakes survive
[Outro]
All I want is to hold a little piece
Of history between my teeth
It's cold and hard, like mother's grief
I risked it all just to feel my burning skin
The water's cool and closing in
The dark pool's black and eddying
And what are we, if not bones and blood and teeth
We're memories, in perfect films of who we've been
And we could try and we could fall
And we could die and we will crawl