A Lot Like Birds
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The Sound Of Us

The Sound Of Us lyrics by A Lot Like Birds. Dead stars in jewelry boxes spill as we rush past them, lain to waste We can't have everything we want, some...

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The Sound Of Us

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Dead stars in jewelry boxes spill as we rush past them, lain to waste

We can't have everything we want, some things will have to stay

There is no beauty in the fire

But there is beauty in the way your eyes locked willingly

With death and death turned trembling away

Like ice on passing comets we move coldly, soundless

Through it all but in the wordless space between us

There is something like a song

Each note exists within the silence, our hearts were moving it along

You sing the melody so perfect, I can only get it wrong

So I beg, just make the silence stop (it's exposed too much)

I think I've had enough (time to let it go)

It's always quiet and that was the sound of us

(And it's killing me, I'm close to giving up)

An hourglass is spinning, tumbling right past me through the room

Gravity long since gone, now an airless tomb

The song that lived between us: Here but out of tune

The grains of sand escape the glass, each one paler than the Moon

Entire planets empty with only dust and rocks to find

You escaped from here, leaving this behind

You found an enemy in sorrow; I made a lover out of mine

And now I'm running out of air and I'm begging

Just make the silence stop (it's exposed too much)

I think I've had enough (time to let it go)

It's always quiet and that was the sound of us

(And it's killing me, I'm close to giving up)

What am I to say? We've been growing apart

My infatuation with you began to slip into the void

I watched it drift into the cosmos as anguish plagued my mind

As we began to mirror all the space between the stars

I couldn't take the static

I needed something more

It wasn't easy finding something to live for

Hearing your voice inside of every sound

I saw a part of you in everything

Took a moment to breathe, then let it run out

Just make the silence stop (it's exposed too much)

I think I've had enough (time to let it go)

It's always quiet and that was the sound of us

(And it's killing me, I'm close to giving up)

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