The Blessed Unrest

Let me paint a picture for you then I'll have to teach you to see it Illustrate the remnants of the life I used to live here in Eden Rolled a lucky pair of dice, ended up paradise
 Landed on a snake's eyes, took a bite and ended up bleeding You know

Let the bough break, let it come down crashing Let the sun fade out to a dark sky I can't say I'd even notice it was absent Cause I could live by the light in your eyes I'll unfold before you Would have strung together The very first words Of a lifel

Come in close now, it's time to tell a story Long ago and so many years before we Ever were, ever dreamed we even could be There was her and her very first heartbeat All alone in the corner of the night sky Spiral bones of a supernova starlight Fell

This one's for the lonely child Broken-hearted, running wild This was written for the ones to blame One who believes they are the cause of chaos and everything You may find yourself in the dead of night Lost somewhere up in the great big beautiful sk

You can be amazing You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug You can be the outcast Or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love Or you can start speaking up Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that words do And they settle 'neath your skin Kept on

It's a really old city Split between the dead and the living So I thought to myself, sitting on a graveyard shelf As the echo of heartbeats from the ground below my feet Filled a cemetery in the center of Queens I started running the maze of The name