The Ladder Up

Verse 1

Yellow

Paint on the pavement

A messy trail of wet mistakes

I keep

Waiting

Watching for the heavy birds to land

Thinking of your face in the mirror

Heavy

Ghostly

Maybe I was wrong

Maybe I was early

Maybe I was just too tired to care

Chorus

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Higher than we used to be

Higher than we used to be

It's a long way down

It's a long way down

Oh oh oh oh

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Post-Chorus

Up and up

Up and up

Higher than the birds

Higher than the birds

Verse 2

Stars

They look like tiny holes

In a black blanket stretched too thin

Across

The roof

I climbed the ladder

Pockets full of heavy gold coins

Losing

Everything

Never meant to make you cry

Never meant to say goodbye

Never meant to stay inside

Cold

Hard

Rain

Chorus

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Higher than we used to be

Higher than we used to be

It's a long way down

It's a long way down

Oh oh oh oh

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Bridge

Look at the sky

Look at the sky

Look at the sky

We are made of light

We are made of dust

We are made of us

Just us

Nothing else matters

When the walls fall down

Chorus

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Higher than we used to be

Higher than we used to be

It's a long way down

It's a long way down

Oh oh oh oh

Fixing the cracks in the glass

Post-Chorus

Up and up

Up and up

Higher than the birds

Higher than the birds

Outro

Yellow

Turn it all to yellow

Softly

Softly

Gone