This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open lyrics
Song information
Artist: The Weakerthans Album: Left & Leaving
Lyrics
Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room Half illuminate a face before they disappear You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling I breathe out smoke against the window, trace the letters in your name Our letters sound the same; Full of all our changing that isn't change at all All straight lines circle sometime You said "somewhere there's a box full of replacement parts To all the tenderness we've broken or let rust away Somewhere sympathy is more than just a way of leaving Somewhere someone says 'I'm sorry.' Someone's making plans to stay." So tell me it's okay Tell me anything, or show me there's a pull Unassailable, that will lead you there From the dark, alone, benevolence that you've never known Or you knew when you were four and can't remember Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams And the silence knows what you silence means And your metaphors (as mixed as you can make them) Are linked, like days, together I still hear trains at night, when the wind is right I remember everything, lick And thread this string that will never mend you Or tailor more than a memory of a kitchen floor Or the fire-door that we kept propping open And I love this place; the enormous sky And the faces, hands that I'm haunted by So why can't I forgive these buildings These frameworks labeled "home"?
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"Left & Leaving" album track list
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