Aaron McMullan - Ode To Innocence lyrics

Somewhere 'neath these cardboard bindings There's a room that's lined with notes With photographs of cities that the camera's never seen And there's a couple books I read to you When night-time grants me dreams Floor burned black wi' petrol blazes, scorched and cracking Dead eyes gazin' out o' concrete All things rise and fall And here with you, and all the things once set me shakin' Well, they're nothing much at all I remember tasting you beside the water in the spring I remember you sat listening To a couple verses written For to make sense of this screechin' hind my eyes And yeah the clouds tore themselves free O' that vast blue stretched endlessly Those whispers bleeding overhead And so we danced wi' heaven shakign Twilight swelling, moonlight breaking From the wounds winding like vipers in the sky Let this be all I ever see Let blindness swallow me, let time devour me There's a message from some fella someplace just outside of where we've ended up Or where we're stopping off Talkin' bout voices they are currency, and his worth more than most An yeah I kept his words for sometime I might need a line to make sense of a thought A state o' mind that I been trailing It's a G-flat exorcism, it's an off-key detuned cleansing, it's a farewell to the Ghosts I remember cell-door steel and red-raw lashes cross the wrists And jacket-pockets fulla sedatives And her voice as rowboat waitin' Led me back across the Acheron And held me by that furnace on the shore And I recall apologies stacked up in threes, anticipating Some new sorrow, some disgrace Another four, five days a weepin' 'Tween the sheets an never sleepin' Pleadin', "Help me, I can't do this any more" And I don't do it any more No, something heard me, something pitied me and cleansed me There's a woman used to wander 'long the train tracks Whispering to lovers long since lost to history, to memory As distant as the faces she can't recognise in photographs Still hanging down on strings across her chest Times I see her in my dreams, cursing wildly at Prometheus Says "Give me back my blindness, and my ignorance An let my lost naivety crawl 'tween my legs an enter me An let me taste my youth wi every breath Let the night solidify 'till everything is concrete black And I'll be eulogised in prose And I'll be half-heard myth And tale pa**ed down as hymnal And these tracks as blessed shrines For all those eyes all grey with nothingness"