Down the Dream

Intro

(spoken)

I loved you like a mirror loves a room

(a soft, almost inaudible laugh)

Ah

Verse 1

The chandelier remembers everyone who lied beneath it

My gloves are wet from clapping at my own defeat

A detail becomes a thought becomes a lie

And the lie admits it kept the truth alive all winter

Pre-Chorus

So pour the wine into the piano

Let the keys decide what's wrong

I rehearsed my own forgiveness

In a language I don't speak

Chorus

Row me nowhere gently down the dream

Darling, virtue is a very costly scheme

Every halo is a hook beneath the gleam

And I stitched my whole salvation at the seam

Post-Chorus

(Down the dream)

(Down the dream)

Ah, ah, ah

Verse 2

My confessor is a mirror with a crack

I keep a tiny funeral in my coat

The truth was such a faithful little liar

It ironed my sins and hung them in the light

Pre-Chorus

So teach the clocks to hesitate

And teach the guests to leave

I was never who you wanted

I was only who you'd grieve

Chorus

Row me nowhere gently down the dream

Darling, virtue is a very costly scheme

Every halo is a hook beneath the gleam

And I stitched my whole salvation at the seam

Post-Chorus

(Down the dream)

(Down the dream)

Bridge

(whispered)

Somewhere a Swiss man is losing his mind tonight

Tick tick tick tick

And nobody dances

(nobody dances)

Chorus

Row me nowhere gently down the dream

Darling, virtue is a very costly scheme

Every halo is a hook beneath the gleam

And I stitched my whole salvation at the seam

Outro

(spoken, slower)

I have buried every version of myself

Except the one who would have loved you properly

That one is still out there

Still rowing

Still

Still

(a breath)

(spoken)

Well. At least the boat was rented.