Spirit Bend from The Outsider by Escape the Stake
Tracklist
| 9. | Spirit Bend | 5:05 |
Lyrics
i never taught my spirit how to bend before it breaks
and the comedown’s always easier when the worst part is over with
and I’m not sore from a backbend, i’m just shattered on the floor
cause i know i can’t withstand the winds of war
there are threads of darkness and they’re creeping down my spine
and a figure stands behind me, always slightly to the right
but he’s holding me together, and he’s gotten me this far
i can’t have an exorcism, if i did, i’d fall apart
i’ll follow the winding road
it’ll take me through idaho
and i don’t know how, but i know
the place i return to, it won’t be my home
to miss a touch you’ve never known
it’s like i can feel you grasping at my bones
and i’m grateful for all the grace that you’ve shown
you proved to a skeptic we’re truly not alone
there’s a black dog chasing me, he can never quite catch up
filled with an eternal hunger, i would never be enough
but he doesn’t seem to know that and he never seems to stop
and his presence shifts the focus from what i am to what i’m not
there is far too much of me, so which parts can i let go?
i’ll try to starve the devil out or catch him in my throat
remain an unnamed evil, a hatchet buried deep
known only in those silver lines and the secrets that i keep
i’ll follow the winding road
it’ll take me through idaho
and i don’t know how, but i know
the place i return to, it won’t be my home
to miss a touch you’ve never known
it’s like i can feel you grasping at my bones
and i’m grateful for all the grace that you’ve shown
you proved to a skeptic we’re truly not alone
in the forest where the black dog finally lays down with the lamb
it won’t be like what they describe, i can only hope you’ll understand
they have to die together, and they cant exist apart
and they’ll start to rot away within the shadows of your heart
i am the dog, i am the lamb, the forest lives inside me
it’s my blood that sustains them, and it’s really me they’re fighting
and i have to keep them both alive and learn to deal with it
cause the day that they stop breathing is the day i cease to live
i’ll follow the winding road
it’ll take me through idaho
and i don’t know how, but i know
the place i return to, it won’t be my home
to miss a touch you’ve never known
it’s like i can feel you grasping at my bones
and i’m grateful for all the grace that you’ve shown
you proved to a skeptic we’re truly not alone
no we’re never alone
