Skip to content
Lyric
Dive
Public playlists
My playlists
Search
Sign in
The Turnings of the Earth
Matthew Squires and the Learning Disorders
Popularity ยท Low
+
๐ฌ๐ง English ยท Original
0
0
Listen
YouTube
1
2
3
0:00 / 0:00
Loading YouTube player...
Lyrics offset
Synced
Lyrics
Original
Translation
Bilingual
This whole god damn world is a mirror
I tried my best to turn away from it
I was ashamed of it, I guess
And when I turned, I turned forever
Like a ballerina who had confused grace
with saving face
My life was whizzing by
This whole god damn world is a mirror
I tried my best to run away from it
I was afraid of it, I guess
I ended up on top of Mt. Tremper
The stars shined brighter there than anything
I had ever seen
In fact, they gave me sight
And then I watched you as struggled to free yourself
from the shackles that were inside of your head
It was like watching a child resist the arms
of his mother when she would lay him in bed, oh lord
Surprise, surprise: He still got fed
Sometimes I hide inside of my brain
It's lonely there but its safe
And I know when I go that I will go unstained
You could never stain this mind
It's as much yours as mine
as mine
as mine
This is as much yours as it could ever be called "mine"
So, I hope, my love, when your skin starts caving in from time
that you will still sip on my love like a well-aged wine
And please do not waste one more of your beautiful tears
on the youth that you lost, for you never really owned it my dear
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that Earth just turns for
itself
ย