Release - Tanuki

From the tallest heights

We could hear from all directions

Their careful goodbyes

And all the hands beside

The coldest of queens

That we carried like trophy wives

We sang along to lonely strings

We danced atop a child’s dreams

We waited for these bitter things

To take their leave

To take their leave tonight

We break the walls we love for peace

We trade what little’s left

In search of some release

In every photograph

We see it staring back

The comfort that comes with the past

And all your favorite parts

Don’t fit into the vacancies you hide behind your heart

We end the day with littered lungs

We speak despite our swollen tongues

We own the broken notes we sung

But this won’t hold

But this won’t hold for long

We break the ones we loved for peace

We trade what little’s left

In search of some release

We tell ourselves it’s only just enough to breath

We trade what little’s left

In search of some release

We break the ones we loved for peace

We trade what little’s left

In search of some release

We tell ourselves it’s only just enough to breath

We trade everything we are

In search of some release