Ship Of Promises - Villagers

You see a mask from your window at night

So you wake and you go outside

And you put it on

And they treat you in a different way

But you can’t understand what they say

After you’ve put it on

So a change is never an end

Cause this is happening all over again

And it’s been days since I left

On this ship of promises

Another day, another denial

Every longing’s up on trial

So you learn to put it on

As the captain calls everyone in

To the dance hall and the night begins

You have to put it on

All these visions of a welcoming party, pretty party

Have been lost, cause it’s the same since I left

On this ship of promises

All the churches I remember well

Clocking in and out to the sound of the bell

We just put it on

It takes you in, it scrubs you clean, it sanitizes every dream

And you put it on

You just put it on

But I’ll meet you in between

What I say and what I mean

And we will make our own mess

On this ship of promises

Cause it’s the same since we left

On this ship of promises

We just could not care less

On this ship of promises

Don’t look back