City Of Salt - I Dreamed We Were Alive lyrics

I dreamed your face again, upended, dark But I can't seem to conjure a cure And sometimes my hands forget how far you are When they fight for to save something pure But Lord, they keep losing for sure And I dreamed a little boy, lost in your arms Couldn't call out to guide him back home Maybe I'm selfish, God, maybe I'm scarred I just can't up and hide what I know And I can't seem to find what you've shown And I dreamed we were alive, both of us whole While I wrestled with dogs big and red I asked, "how deep is misery, how long this road?" Oh, darling, you know what I meant But you haven't answered me yet And I dreamed a bitter man, hollow and cold He went wandering through walls like a ghost And what he would give to have someone to hold But his heart doesn't know what to know So now he just lives through the phone And I dreamed surrounded by something I'd missed As I scratched off your names on my wall I remember those summers, that habit, a kiss But I can't seem to pick up their call And I can't help but break my own fall And I dreamed we were alive, mortal and kin! And we swam through a sea, a dark host! And we kicked at the ashtrails, and shut out the wind Oh, we put on one hell of a show Till a man came to call you back home And I dreamed we were alive, you were the sky And my father, he knelt on your bones "Oh, let him seek truth, him who wanders at night!" Then I hushed him and hung up the phone