One Minute Millionaires - Broken Bones lyrics

A tattered veil shadows her face, concealing her emerald eyes As the sound of her voice pulls away, to an all familiar reprise With my resolve in the fray, to a long day without me Where she beckons and breathes, I break and I bleed to resounding defeat And always just out of reach As I struggle and strain for the words That should be easy to speak But I can't stop breathing her name Chastened and chided I sail, as I'm caught in the narrows Well her siren song pulls me away, to the rocks and the shallows But you won't hear me deride Or speak until spoken Before I lived complete But I think that I'd rather be Broken bones from sticks and stones, words just finish me off Sleep in my arms where I'm calm as the morning, and God I know that I'm lost Shade from her bullets brought rain The tracks are so hard from the train That drowned out my only reply Until that all the comes out is her name Well the silence it deafens and stands, as I'm locked in my memory's dream Where the prison doors groan as they slam, and I know that I always will be Her lighthouse in her desert, candle next to the sun I'm a roadside cross in the darkness, and a firework next to her gu