Phil Elverum - Real d**h lyrics

[Verse 1] d**h is real Someone's there and then they're not And it's not for singing about It's not for making into art When real d**h enters the house, all poetry is dumb When I walk into the room where you were And look into the emptiness instead All fails My knees fail My brain fails Words fail [Verse 2] Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail A week after you died a package with your name on it came And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down Being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real [Outro] It's dumb And I don't want to learn anything from this I love you