Holes - Michael Malarkey

In the old city now

All the clouds have turned brown

And the skyscrapers sway

And prepare to fall down

And in the evenings we sleepwalk these sidewalks alone

Return to our dim-lit rooms

And the drone of our bones

And these bodies we know

When we try to leave town

We just turn back around

And forget what we’re trying to leave anyhow

In the mornings we wake

To the birth of the light

Forgetting the night

And we go, and we work and we talk

And we laugh and pretend that we know

We’d rather be alone

So we crave the day

That we can’t escape

But the only way out of this place

Is too scary

So we stay

And these holes in our hearts

Are like diamonds to some

But to us, they’re just holes

And they’ll never go, no

And these holes in our hearts

Are like diamonds to some

But to us, they’re just holes

And they hurt

And they’ll never go, nooo

Hmmmmm…

If I could retrace the deeds

In my old trajectory

Then I’d be on my way out to see

But I tried so hard

To find something to believe

As they found the gaps in the holes

And they told me to solve

Where nothing would grow

When our minds fizzle out

When our skin has gone cold

When the oceans run red

When our stories unfold

Then we’ll disappear entirely

And nobody will know who we were at all

It’s the best way to fall

And return to this world as another

And wander this place like a stranger

Wondering why we’re here

So, we crave the day

That we can’t escape

But the only way out of this place

Is too scary

So we stay

And these holes in our hearts

Are like diamonds to some

But to us, they’re just holes

And they’ll never go, no

And these holes in our hearts

Are like diamonds to some

But to us, they’re just holes

And they hurt

And they’ll never go, nooo

These holes in our hearts

Are like diamonds to some

But to us, they’re just holes

And they’ll never go, no

These holes in our hearts

Are like diamonds to some

But to us, they’re just holes

And they hurt

And they’ll never go, nooo

Hmmmmm…