I've been making time with a floating feather I walk home alone with you in the manner I'm accustomed to All the words you bring they make me fall to pieces The city drains our white-washed walls until the final bottle falls I've been learning things I've always known by heart Alone in my sleep, they say the devil runs that deep And so I learn to take a leap of faith I've been wasting time on our conversations It doesn't matter where you've been as long as you come back again The days are long, the nights are raw and grueling It could take forever now to find the life you read about It's back to talk of things we've never known at all It's just like you heard, you take the fox and the bird And try to make them friendly for a day I'm always wasting time with this floating feather I walk home alone with you in the manner I've grown accustomed to All the words you bring they make me fall to pieces The city workers can't fill in this hole that you and I've been digging We're always wanting things we'll never have, not at all It's just like you've heard, you take the fox and the bird And try to make them friendly for a day So run if you must chasing after some lust And wait to turn back to dust