Mimicking Birds - Rivers, Veins, and Roots lyrics

[Verse 1] All my friends are vultures, in a way When I'm not dead they fly away Circling 'round some other still-living prey Waiting for them to crawl So they can eat their face And in the salty underground everywhere There's more roots than I can bear And growing down and around some past's preserved mastodon's hair I'm sure the archaeologists knew That their souls were still there, too [Verse 2] And all these species' secrets left in the slate A new fate we await So spawn the industrial age But all our basic concepts basically say That it's all relatively arranged In such familiar ways [Chorus] Well the new someday soon run away from me Draw one more scar hard on my heart The flesh is much stronger where it's been torn once Like an arc weld holds Holds Things together until they're apart [Verse 3] And all my friends are vultures in a way When I'm not alive they hover over and away Fluttering around this carca** just casually eating my brains No feathers on their heads No flesh left on my face And in the shifty underground everywhere There's a few more roots than I can really bear But on the surface the light's wide open where The water runs too Like the roots do [Chorus] And I knew someday the ruin might be built by me Just one more stone stacked ridiculously high The solid is much weaker where it's been worn some By the weather's low Low Pressure zones