Lyrics

[Verse 1] I've looked over my shoulder Ever since I slipped on pride Though the fire in me still smolders My heart has gotten older In its cage of veins and light And though I've gotten bolder The roads curve out of view I think the unsuspected And all the sins go undetected When they never follow through [Chorus] And all of those old shadows Gave a stranger's face a backglow And all of those black diamonds Never had a grip on time, and It leaves me with an echo Of what I used to be [Verse 2] I don't stand on the corner When the coyote sirens shriek The night can rake the death in Like a tattered, beaten deerskin In a falcon's crooked beak But what else can I promise To the whole that rise beneath Fear clings to the rocks like A lifelong smoker's cough to A row of broken teeth [Chorus] And all of those old shadows Gave a stranger's face a backglow And all of those black diamonds Never had a grip on time, and It leaves me with an echo Of what I used to be [Bridge] With every indecision I crunch it up like long division And wipe away the crumbs of Whatever I'm still missing Compound leaves unfolding The trauma that I'm holding Is nipping at the parts of me that I can never change [Verse 3] And I know it's never hopeless It's only incomplete I know that I am driven But I don't know when to give in To the crevice underneath And I'm standing in the long haul Of someone else's fame My heart is never calm It's like a bloodstone eddy bomb, and It's always drawn to flame [Outtro] And all of those old shadows Gave a stranger's face a backglow And all of those black diamonds Never had a grip on time, and It leaves me with an echo And all of those old shadows Gave a stranger's face a backglow And all of those black diamonds Never had a grip on time, and It leaves me with an echo Of what I used to be