Violations of Distance

In the attic there's a room all full of boxes, overgrown
If you dig down deep enough you'll find out where the seeds are sown
Once you reach the roots you'll take this tangle and make it your home
But there are reasons they were buried, do you really want to know
(Do you really want to know, do you really want to know)

Sing for the guests, they came just to look at you
Let's hear that pretty voice, don't make us look rude
It's lonely being an ornament, a feeling you've learned to ignore
How can you speak when you're already spoken for

My sister and i used to say
We had a secret brother hiding upstairs
Floating through the air like dust
No one knew he was there but us

Count the stairs in steps of three now, treading on them silently
Learn to be a ghost among ghosts, never heard and rarely seen
Though the house it threatens to sink, no one dares disturb the floors
(I am you but i'm not yours, i am you but i'm not yours)

Swimming through the darkened house
I try to speak but the water fills my mouth
I want to get out into the light, but nothing
Comes through the window

The moon is my only witness
I wonder what my sister would have to say about all this
My mother can't stop praying not to see
My father doesn't want to look inside of me

Well you're still breathing, but you know you can't be seen
Keep your distance, don't reach for the hand that feeds
Violations, you're too far away to reach
It takes patience to survive invisibly

And you've waited, feels like lifetimes at the least
Generations, and you don't know what you need
No one told you how to grow from such a seed
It takes patience to survive invisibly

Well you're still breathing, but you know you can't be seen
Reputations, we're so proud of how you keep
All our secrets, hide your pills and hold your peace
It takes patience to survive invisibly