O! The Noise!

I've tried all my keys in the lock

I've built hundred-story monuments to me, I mean, to you

It seems every stone I throw ripples the water in ways I'll never know

Down below

My accomplishments take me by the hand

Coaxing me to hell or to the promised land

And I'll go, I'll go, I'll pack up and go

So long as I don't have to go alone

My hands are raw and overworked

From trying to wash your color off my shirt

It's like you belong here

If I'd only thought to ask

If I'd only rung the bell on your door

If I'd only prayed to God

I'd be out of this whale, in your house once more

O the noise! Redemption drops my wrist

Leaving me to hell for one last kiss

And I'll go, I'll go, but I don't want to go

Because everyone has to go alone

O the noise! Keeping me from sleep

In the belly of a whale down deep in the sea

Swimming far from all I've done and made-

Only now, I'm content to let it fade

Only now, I'm content

Dancing in circles, watching my feet move

I'm going under, but I'm going somewhere

(O!, you're not what I want)

(But good God, you're what I need)

Only now, I'm content to let it fade