Wearing Another Man's Eyes

I tear the blanket off, glistening skin
No infection
And if I have dreamed I can never recall
A wordless message

But not to despair will I ever succumb
"We tried to save him"
And when I am laid it will be on my terms
So sing us a funeral song

All life will end
All rivers freeze

Dust in the chasm and frost in the moor
In your nature
The promise of change and the waxing of hope
A faithless kingdom

If you are the nail and I am the cross
What between us?
Straight through the muscle and into the bone
Look at the mess that we made

Newly formed
Heaven-sent
Heaven-sent

And if tucking the shirt isn't fashion no more
I haven't a shirt to my name
And if fate with its punishing hammer and whip
Leave us with nothing to say

They're kicking him down
And they're hanging him up
Let him swing

Ride like the wind, keep ahead of the storm
Let off the yoke, go on, let them be free
If we were not tethered we'd never be still
We'd run ourselves into the sea

Follow the river until it repeats
This liquid perpetual motion machine
When taking the wheel of a rudderless ship
You're wearing another man's eyes
Yes you're wearing another man's eyes
Yes you're wearing another man's eyes

Teach me the rhythm I'm aching to play
Crotchets, quavers
String up the fiddle and rosin the bow
Play us a funeral song

I'm coming to town
And I'm looking for fun
But burrowing down
Becomes burrowing up
The summoning call
The abandoning sigh

Luck be the face of a simmering curse
A slow execution on restless knees
It was passed through a comb of a million teeth
But the riddle has never been solved
But the riddle has never been solved
But the riddle has never been solved