Track Insight / Lyrics
I sleep beneath the hall's old glass
While candle flames are swept past
My ribs are stitched with silver wire
As cold psalms hum beneath the choir
One church bell leans against my side
And waits for rain to turn the tide
I wait beside a rusted door
Where pigeons pace the courtyard floor
A black stain climbs across my hem
The rain writes someone else's name
A schoolgirl's shadow reaches wide
Then vanishes beneath my stride
Inside out tonight, I fly
Above the white wind-torn sky
No hand can pull me down
I circle through the town
The engine growls beneath the bridge
Its headlights rake the flooded ridge
I feel a stranger pull my spine
And gravel rattles in a line
The windows shudder, one by one
The thunder speaks before the sun
Inside out tonight, I fly
Above the white wind-torn sky
No hand can pull me down
I circle through the town
The sky exhales across the square
My eight black bones divide the air
The whole street bends beneath my flight
I lose my shape, I lose my light
Then weightless in the sudden blue
I open wide and come alive
At midnight, wind begins to climb
It combs the roofs and cracks the chime
One brutal hand unfolds my side
My canopy opens wide
The startled leaves forget their ground
And circle where my points resound
Now I am lightning's loose black wing
Across the square I twist and sing
My broken points rain silver down
While every metal claw hits ground
A church bell watches from the nave
I circle once, then fade away
Inside out tonight, I fly
Above the white wind-torn sky
No hand can pull me down
I circle through the town
I rise, I rise, I turn, I tear
Beyond the roofs and through the air
The last blue splinter bends the light
I vanish in the edge of night
Inside out, then gone from sight
I become the storm by morning
