Breaker / Keeper

Red on the carpet floor

Is all forgiven or forever stored

In each lie we tell

And each silence that we choose not to fill

Truth is, a part of me died

When you said, "I don't really want to be alive"

Time stood still

And it hasn't really moved since

As the torrents bend the tired pines

I cave in to what I can't make right

My shield, my shroud

Does it clear or does it cloud?

My shield, my shroud

Does it clear or does it cloud?

My breaker, my keeper

My breaker, my keeper

Your sorrow, your martyrdom

Lord knows, I harbor some of the same

Darkness in my mind

Now the spaces seem to grow between the light

Frightened, fearful words

All that you swear, you believe, you didn't deserve

All you decry

Well, it's all been burned so deep inside my mind

As the torrents bend the tired pines

I cave in to what I can't make right

My shield my shroud

Does it clear or does it cloud?

My thread, my way out

My only hope and all my doubt

My breaker, my keeper

My breaker, my keeper

I was a shoe horn

I was a crowbar

I was your Ohio Blue Tip

I was your old man

I was a best friend

I was there and that is all

I was a shoe horn

I was a crowbar

I was your Ohio Blue Tip

I was your old man

I was a best friend

That was then and that is all

My breaker, my keeper

My breaker, my keeper

My breaker, my keeper

My breaker, my keeper