Graves

I. Faint Heart

Faint heart

World can wait for the weary hands to learn it's too late

But I'm spit and I'm rough dirt

What do you want from me?

Faint heart

Tip of my tongue

A song like youth: Wasted on the young

And it's over and over

What kind of father could I be?

Faint heart

Rain to the spark

At last my light, giving in to dark

And the thought of it crumbling to dust - no, I was not done

Faint heart

I beg she won't see the coward, the cur, maybe this is me

These hands shaped stone

But I'm scared like you wouldn't believe

Faint heart

Only a glimpse

I was wrong, take it back, just let this one live

Then it hits me like ice to the bone

What if I'm just like him?

Good God

Give me the strength that I need not to be

To fight, not to flee

Or succumb to the beast underneath

What if he's just like me?

Naked in the wild

All was reconciled

When I held my child

Naked in the wild

All was reconciled

When I held my child

II. A Few Peaceful Years

Quiet mind

Peace... Reach

Quiet mind... Be at peace... Reach

We are the fire that whispers our mother's words

Help me, love, help me to finish it

We are the soil that joy gave form

We are the dream, and these are my father's hands

Help me, love, help me to finish it

We are the soil that joy gave form

Help me to finish it

III. The Boy and the Broken Wheel

Rising waves cry: He'll go first

He'll go first

(You know it al all that's left of

Your dream)

Is all this nothing to you?

Fear

(What if they were right?)

He was always the better

The thief who shapes the images you dreamed

All unfinished dreams

For nothing

(The images you dreamed were for nothing)

(Take back what's yours, don't keep me waiting)

Just take back what's yours, don't keep me waiting

No more hope, broken pieces in your hands

Waves rushing in

I'm waiting

I wait

He sees me

Waves receding

The child, healing my hurt, one day at a time

I'd feared it just like me

The child, healing my hurt, one day at a time

Storm's distant

I'm still closer than ever

I'm healing my hurt

One day I'll repay this kindness

Oh, he sees me whole

Her voice is telling me

To breathe and let it be, the lion

Heed my words

The man arise from earth

The life the lie is worth, the liar

Heed my words, you'll go first

The wound that would not heal

The boy, the broken wheel, the lion

Heed my hurt

The wind that whips the waves

The spit, the second grave, the liar

Heed my hurt, you'll go first

We are the fire that whispers our mother's words

Help me, love, help me to finish it

We are the soil that joy gave form

We are the dream, and these are my father's hands

Help me, love, help me to finish it

We are the soil that joy gave form

Waves receding, and faith is fading like the Sun

The work left undone

IV. Hands Shape Stone

Greed brought us here

Soon, blood to soil

Now that has been taken from me

Tell me it was all for nothing

Alright

Play the part, the eyes, the witness

That I can touch you deep, can you feel this?

Alright

Breathe and let it be

Carving out the world that you stole

Bite down on it, dig a new hole

O hands

I beg you, break stone beneath me

Knowing that she won't forgive me

Not this time, not again

But she married my anger too

And what am I to stay to my son now?

My work undone

And what am I to stay to my son now?

Hands shape stone

Hands shape stone

Hands shape

Hands shape stone

Hands shape stone

Hands shape

Hands shape stone

Hands shape stone

Hands shape