Not What They Believe

Verse 1

Old

Iron and skin

Heavy weight on my bones

I walk these straight stone paths alone

The dust

Deep in my throat

Dry

Searching for a creek to drink

I find a puddle by the brink

Cold

Verse 2

Weightless

Nothing to see

Behind my shoulder blades

A muscle tenses in the dark shades

Hidden

I feel them twitch

Wild

Pinions pull against the air

A ghostly heavy sort of glare

Wide

Chorus

Give me back the fur

Give me back the claw

Let the forest floor heal the flaw

I am human for the day

I am human for the pay

I am human till I lay

Down to sleep and finally run

Until the rising of the sun

Until the rising of the sun

Post-Chorus

Run away

Run away

Away

Away

Verse 3

Tall grass

Brushing my ribs

Rough gold against the grain

I forget the worry and the strain

Lost

Running on four

Low

Heavy paws hit the loam

Finding my way back home

True

Bridge

They see a face

They see a name

They see a man

But I feel the itch of the scale

I feel the pull of the tail

I feel the wind in my sail

Underneath the cotton shirt

Deep inside the mountain dirt

I am not what they believe

I am what the shadows weave

Chorus

Give me back the fur

Give me back the claw

Let the forest floor heal the flaw

I am human for the day

I am human for the pay

I am human till I lay

Down to sleep and finally run

Until the rising of the sun

Until the rising of the sun

Outro

Phantom limbs

Phantom life

Fading in the morning light

Wait for me

Wait for me

I am coming back

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