Birds & Cages

Deas Vail Birds & Cages Lyrics
1.The Things You Were

It's making perfect sense
Why I'm putting this one off
I'm gonna take that second chance
Before the day is done
I think to myself
Maybe this is love
Or maybe it's something else
I slowly come apart
But I'm trying to let go
What if this is love
What I barely believe in

You were old and I ran
Until you came and saved me
This is not what it seems
No, you've taken me by surprise
And given me new life, yeah

I turned every light on
But I still can't find my way
And I forget this one is love
What's it take to remind me

You were old and I ran
Until you came and saved me
This is not what it seems
No, you've taken me by surprise
And given me new life, yeah

It's something to live for
It's something to live for
It's something to live for
It's something to live for
It's something to live for

You were old and I ran
Until you came and saved me
This is not what it seems
No, you've taken me by surprise
And given me new life, yeah
Given me new life, yeah
Given me new life


2.Growing Pains

What's a name
When in the darkness we all look the same
Holding candles looking for the flame
For the fire to chase the night away
As we wait for daylight to break

What is life kept to ourselves
Careful words composed
It's a book upon the shelf
The story never told

We are friends
Chasing photos of our happier days
Clinging to the ones they can't erase
Going on to find the perfect place
Where we can love eachother
We can find eachother
We can shape the world again

What is life kept to ourselves
Careful words composed
It's a book upon the shelf
The story never told
Pages turn and then unfold
To show us where we've been
As the signs along the road
To lead us home again

I feel like I am turned inside out
I've come so far I can't turn around
But I don't know the next steps to take
Cause all you left were me and the growing pains

What is life kept to ourselves
Careful words composed
It's a book upon the shelf
The story never told
Pages turn and then unfold
To show us where we've been
As the signs along the road
To lead us home again


3.Excuses

Blame yourself and no one else
You come alone or don't come at all
This is your chance to believe in
Something more than walls and ceilings
You're saving face to be on your way in

Come on, come on
Don't wait until the damage is done
It's gone when it's gone
Don't you want to know what we could become
On and on we run and we run from life
It's time we chase the smoke of our guns
And we make this right

Save yourself, now don't be scared
I'll do my part and be right there
I will probably come out running
With exploding buildings right behind me

Come on, come on
Don't wait until the damage is done
It's gone when it's gone
Don't you want to know what we could become
On and on we run and we run from life
It's time we chase the smoke of our guns
And we make this right

Come on, come on
Don't wait until the damage is done
It's gone when it's gone
Don't you want to know what we could become
Come on, come on
Don't wait until the damage is done
It's gone when it's gone
Don't you want to know what we could become
On and on we run and we run from life
It's time we chase the smoke of our guns
And we make this right


4.Cages

I can't stand the mechanical breath
And I'm scared I could slowly love you to death
I can never let go
On and on we are counting the formulas
We've become the modern equation
The numbers of hope
And I won't feed us lies here
They're not giving us much time

I'd give anything to make it better
Baby, this is something I can't change
Oh, this silence could go on forever
Am I walking with you in your dreams

These metaphors for conditions and phobias
We'll pretend that we can explain
But we know we don't know
We can't be lead by fear, dear
I'd give anything to make it better
Baby, this is something I can't change
Oh, this silence could go on forever
Am I walking with you in your dreams tonight

I'd give anything to make it better
Baby, this is something I can't change
Oh, this silence could go on forever
Am I walking with you in your dreams

Hello, hello, can you hear me
(I'd give anything to make it better)
Can you show me that you understand
(Baby, this is something I can't change)
Hello, hello, can you hear me
(Oh, this silence could go on forever)
Can you show me that you understand
(Am I walking with you in your dreams)

I thought we had it all figured out
But we don't know the half of it
And somebody will come and save us all
And somebody will come and let us out
Let us out of our cages


5.Birds

This is our true alarms
This is reality
We will do what we can
We are just figurines
With our theology that we don't understand
And we can't forget the beginning
When he set our broken wings

Oh God, how much does it take
For us to be loved
For us to be saved
We all are birds stuck inside our cage
Covered up with grace
And behind our saints, we hide our face
All the numbers come
Yeah, they're doubting it
But we can't but to compare ourselves again

I can't believe and this
This blue-lipped lifeless kiss
And we can't see past our thrones
We fight for life within
But our walls are wearing thin
Oh God, where have we gone
When I'm just one finding the difference
Does it matter what I say

Oh God, how much does it take
For us to be loved
For us to be saved
We all are birds stuck inside our cage
Covered up with grace
And behind our saints, we hide our face
All the numbers come
Yeah, they're doubting it
But we can't but to compare ourselves again

It's not that there are ever bad intentions
It's more that we forgot where to call home
The important things that we don't know to mention
It's the uniform that we put on
The formula we have all wrong

Bueatiful intentions
Formula for love
Bueatiful intentions
Formula for love
It's not that there are ever bad intentions
(Beautiful intentions)
It's more that we forgot where to call home
(Formula for love)
The important things that we don't know to mention
(Beautiful intentions)
It's the uniform that we put on
(Formula for love)
The formula we have all wrong


6.Tell Me

Tell me, tell me can you tell me
That the page will turn itself
And take us somewhere else
Tell me, tell me can you telll me
That the page will turn itself
And take us somewhere else


7.Dance In Perfect Time

It's a comfortable sound
The passing cars that calm our bodies down
In this little town
We'll fade into summer's new background
So we'll take this car tonight
It's just a life
We'll dance and dance in perfect time

Our hiding dreams
Are silhouttes that take us in our sleep
So if what we had is real
How should this feel
Just dance and dance

Tell me, tell me can you tell me
That the page will turn itself
And take us somewhere else
Tell me, tell me can you tell me
That the page will turn itself
And take us somewhere else
Tell me, tell me can you tell me
That the page will turn itself
And take us somewhere else
Tell me, tell me can you tell me
That the page will turn itself
And take us somewhere else

It's a turning key
When two are one, they set eachother free


8.Sunlight

Some days come and some days go
Why do they get off running out on me
They're running to their symbols
We can't break up, can't break up with ourselves
I want to, I want to break through
I wish it were so simple
But underneath the colors of our skins
We are the same
We all began when everything was little

We want more than we can get
Is that the way we all like to live
With our reservations

Sunlight is falling again
But it never touches us
Cause we cover our eyes
And cover our fragile skin
And we are comfortable with this

Elevate the products of our sense
We are the soul of modern trends
Or just the imitations

Sunlight is falling again
But it never touches us
Cause we cover our eyes
And cover our fragile skin
And we are comfortable with this

We can't forget what we came here with
And what we'll have left when we leave
So here we stand with our key in hand
As the ones who stood the closest
Slowly falling out of focus
We can't forget what we came here with
And what we'll have left when we leave
So here we stand with our key in hand
The ones who stood the closest
Slowly falling out of focus

Sunlight is falling again
But it never touches us
Cause we cover our eyes
And cover our fragile skin
And we are comfortable with this
Can we hide ourselves like this
Does it seem like we all know where we belong
Where we belong
Where we belong


9.Puzzles And Pieces

Everyone's careful
They're plotting their best escapes
For fear of this whole place burning down
Puzzles and pieces
We're tangled in cages
They rattle and shake their bones
They grew from the earth
I watched them grow
They came up and grabbed me
So stand in a world that seems to be built
On pillars and numbers
Or dance with the hopes of falling in love
Before we have learned to love ourselves

Measures and objects
They fall in our fuel of words
And we are widdled away by zeros, ones
Somebody save us
And nobody asks this
Where does our heart live on
In dreaming of dangers, dream of God
And maybe we've got it
So stand in a world that seems to be built
On pillars and numbers
Or dance with the hopes of falling in love
Before we have learned
Just to stand in a world that seems to be built
On pillars and numbers
Or dance with the hopes of falling in love
But how can we love
If we can't love ourselves
Can't love ourselves


10.The Great Physician

Hello, I have come from the fallen
With colors running down through the outlines
I've closed my eyes to see what is hidden
But now I play the fool for the last time

Take all of my pain
Or is it just a premonition
I can feel it take my breath away
How can it be that we're saved
Just to live with such shame
It's all in my head

So follow the hope that is there if you'll listen
Take your place under the hands
Of the the great physician
The great physician

Move on, just move on
Well I wish it were that easy
I let go, take it back again
Stones that fall out of my hands
Only prove our mistake

Follow the hope that is there if you listen
So take your place under the hands
Of the great physician
Blinded, bright as a permanant color
So I'm moving on to grow from the stones
Of a surface lover
We're going under
Hello, I have come from the fallen


11.The Leaper

I'm telling you son
It's been a long time coming
I don't want to take anything away from you
It'll just be a little while
If that's alright

How can I place every piece together
When I don't want to face
All the things I put you through
If you can't see me in this way
Then that's alright

So I'll leap from the edge
Knowing nothing of the fall
How much time do we have before the end
As the world rushes in
I'm compelled to look back home
And I'm finally conscious of how this began
The beginning of a lifetime
In the chains of the leaper's end

I cover my face
And I swear I won't go for another taste
It's the poison in my mouth
And I think I don't go back, I can't go wrong

So I'll leap from the edge
Knowing nothing of the fall
How much time do we have before the end
As the world rushes in
I'm compelled to look back home
And I'm finally conscious of how this began
The beginning of a lifetime
In the chains of the leaper's end

So I'll leap from the edge
Knowing nothing of the fall
How much time do we have before the end
As the world rushes in
I'm compelled to look back home
And I'm finally conscious of how this began
The beginning of a lifetime
In the chains of the leaper's end


12.Atlantis

Stuck in a world of water and glass
Of recycled air and years that have passed
No one's gonna find us here
They don't know to look
No rescue is coming
No one's gonna find us here
They don't know to look
No rescue is coming

We took away to make our homes
Now nothing remains from all of our hunger
We gave into our need to own
So the tide in its rage has taken us under

We are waiting to be found
At the bottom of the earth
And frequently we'll send a melody
To the surface of the womb
Where our hope of notice looms
From the perfect place for all humanity
In the valley of the deep

Death is a stranger with tricks up his sleeves
We'll always need but we'll never receive
No one's gonna find us here
They don't know to look
No rescue is coming
No one's gonna find us here
They don't know to look
No rescue is coming

We are waiting to be found
At the bottom of the earth
And frequently we'll send a melody
To the surface of the womb
Where our hope of notice looms
From the perfect place for all humanity
From the valley of the deep

I want to see those gardens where I used to pray
Where I watched the sun come up and evening turn to
Daylight never seems to find this place
This black is so permanant
We are masked in it

We are waiting to be found
At the bottom of the earth
And frequently we'll send a melody
To the surface of the womb
Where our hope of notice looms
From the perfect place for all humanity
In the valley of the deep