The Ravenous House

Lyrics

The sky broke as I drove home And poured out before my eyes Every dream I'd ever kept In a place where no light could shine Now the architecture of my life Stands completely illuminated Every thought I'd had behind closed doors Who I'd loved, and who I'd hated [Chorus 1] My life started off in wonder Then I awakened into sorrow Searching for the meaning of that dream Fell into a pit halfway to heaven [Verse 2] When I was first left alone as a child A voice crept in with a song And through the hitching of my tears I learned to follow along And night after night, I sang To the voice at the back of my mind And when I asked whose voice it was It told me it could be mine [Chorus 2] Naked in the thorns of sorrow In a lightning storm of anger Rage-black clouds come streaming in Coming back to claim what I stole from heaven [Bridge] And now the voice underneath it all Comes swelling up like a flame As it burns down my last excuse I finally remember your name The name I'd covered in dirtAnd commanded never be utteredThe voice is calling it over and overWhat have I done to my brother? (Oh-oh-oh) (Ah-ah-ah, Ah-ah-ah) (Ah-ah-ah, Ah-ah-ah) (Ah-ah-ah, Ah-ah-ah) (Ah-ah-oh) [Breakdown] There was a wound on the wall The first time I came down from my roomI heard my father playing musicAnd smelled my mother cooking breakfastThe sunlight was streaming through the cracks in the blindsAnd I came down, and there was a wound on the wall No-one else mentioned itHanging on the wallA family portraitAnd I laid eyes on myself for the first time (what's that out here?)Could that be me? (is that me, what is it?)But now, I knew I was seen (it's somewhere else, nothing's wrong) I was watched, by whose eyes? (what is this? who is that?) And a voice in my head said (cause that can't be me) "That's not you (who are you?), you could be so much greater You could escape (who am I?), you could leave this behind (Strangers in our world) Leave these strangers behind, you could build up so much more" (Covered in dirt) Whose eyes were on me then? (Strangers in our world) Whose eyes were on me as I got on the computer? (Covered in dirt) Whose eyes were on me as I guessed the passwords? (Strangers in our world) Whose eyes were on me when I started touching the wound on the wall? (Covered in dirt) Whose eyes were on me as my family became strangers to me (Strangers in our world) And I became a stain on their carpet (Covered in dirt) And their love became unacceptable to me (Strangers in our world) And my parents became a liquor bottle that they forgot about, and a car to get me to the next party (Covered in dirt) And my brother became missing pills from his prescription (Strangers in our world) Because, because the wound saidThe wound said "This is love and nothing else""Without me, you don't exist""You are unlovable unless you get what I give you" "What the people in movies get" "You step on people's necks with no regret, every good feeling in the world, everybody loves you, nobody loves anybody but you" Whose eyes were on me when I started to believe it?It has been your eyes, this unacceptable love, how can I meet them now?How can I come back? [Refrain] I give up (Unhealable) I give up [Verse 3] Let us take you back to where we came inWe were united, an undivided nationWe got divided, it was something inside usAnd it was not us You were so naive, you were just like an animalTold what to believe by the beast who took controlHe said it won't kill you, and wanting is normalAnd your life became one of survival The decisions you've made, if you can call it decidingWithout light in your eyes, you're a walking suicide if you change your mind If you get bored and you split the scene There's a bill for everything that you thought was freeIt's a new eternity, was there something you wanted at the bottom of the trash? [Refrain] I give up I give up [Verse 4] Let us take you back to where you came in A boy clinging to the cliff of revelation So scared of what you would find, you started crying "It was not me" Stopped at the borderline, they stripped your disguise So you read a book that won a Pulitzer Prize It was about death, it didn't help You saw yourself in it And you were disturbed at the conclusions that it led to But you couldn't say what because the author was dead too And so though you made fun of us You have now become one of us [Refrain] I give up I give up I give up I give up I give up (I give up, I give up, I give up, I give up, I give up, I give up, I give up, I give up, I give up, I give up) I give up I give up [Outro] And Matt came back to the tableAnd said "The bill's already paid""If you decide that you want love""I love you, I love you, I love you"