Husk

Liz Durrett Husk Lyrics
1.Vine

Navigate your life plan
And radiate with all you have
Lie down in your head
Let loose your life thread

Let it slip right out of hand
Let it slip right
Let it slip right out of hand
Let it slip right

And she knew her timeline
And she tugged on her life vine
And her soft mind spoke its prose
And her words clench as she floats

And she slipped right out of hand
And she slipped right
She slipped right out of hand
She slipped right


2.Husk

There's a gulf at the edge of the yard
And the husk of a shed and a garden
It's the virus that swells in the grass
It's the ration that stays with the water

There's a boy with his back to the porch
There's a root in a jar on the floor
It's the field that is tied to his ankle
It's the fodder that sticks to the table

There's the ghost of a beast in the woods
And the trace of a shell in the dirt
It's the path to the place where he lay
It's the look of a crow on the grave


3.Ablaze

Not so long ago
In a common hole
Quick development
Of a slow exchange
And among this breed
Rattled by the speed
Came an out of place appeal

God send me a blaze
God send me a blaze
God set me ablaze

With the lines cut
In a greedy way
There's a low reply
To a loud decay
So the bug comes
And it hollows all
Til the light shifts
And the room calls

God send me a blaze
God send me a blaze
God set me ablaze


4.Lull

I thought today was the end
It felt like a drug
I had to slam myself and stare
Hypnotic one
Why must it always be that one day can change the rest
That stricken feeling is so short-lived
And only the throb is left

He sang he's running out again?
Thunder in the sun
All at once it's on you and it's gone
Virtual and done
You never know what the power of a particle will cost
I can see that the death of this is my most colossal loss

Paralyzing as a vision ethereal
All alone and awe-struck
In the downpour and the lull
It bore an accidental resemblance to my life
It was celestial speech
Promise prophesied


5.Captive

I am a captive
To myself to no one else
We walk hand in hand
Through dark hallways with no end

I sit in his corner
With my hands bound and my eyes closed
His voice is just a whisper
But it cuts deep into my soul

No night could last this long
No daylight could reach this song
He cannot free me now
He's not a man
He's just a shadow

I am a captive to no end


6.BC

Jesus is coming and I in a crib
Gainesville is ugly, the landscape is grim
Everything I say won't leave my mouth
Everything I say comes crawling out

Jesus is coming and I in a pinch
He takes the back road, the natives are thick
Everything I do sits on my lap
Every time I move I fall right back

Jesus is coming and I under wraps
Martyr for dinner, but I want a snack
Everything I need is on my plate
Everything I want is getting strange


7.Slip

This breath that I've taken
Is it yours, is it mine
This life that I've given
Is it yours, is it mine
And as I slip so quickly
I leave it all behind
This growing desolation
Fills me up inside
It's not you, it's not me
It's not me, no but it's not you

This face that you're making
Is it yours, is it mine
This dream that I've broken
Was it yours, it's not mine
My voice calls for salvation
Dying all the time
You search but you can't find me
I'm nowhere to find
I'm not me, I'm not you
I'm not you, no but I'm not me

This death that I'm living
Is it yours, is it mine
This soul you weren't saving
Was it yours, was it mine
And now as I watch you
From the other side
Who is this life you're living
Now that I've lost mine
Is it you, it's not me
Is it you, it's not me
Is it you, it's not me


8.Net

Catcher ways
Backyard buzz
You are drifting like i wish i was
Hungry net
One to be pinned

That old deft hand
Washboard skin
You are under wood
You are so not, so not what you should
You are under wood
So not, so not what you should

Magic house
Mystic closet
She is lovely like the starlet
Magnet girl
Outward and in
They all see her as more than them

You are in a spin
You are so not, so not what you've been
You are in a spin
So not, so not what you've been


9.You there

You there
You might be everything I need from there
You there
Your mouth said everything I needed to hear
I planted my foot in the ditch when you looked
I did what I could but not what it took

You there
I must look like everything I'm not from there
You there
I know it seems better the longer you stare
You stand right here and I'll be back
With just what you want and just what I lack

You there
You can do this better by yourself from there
You there
It just keeps getting farther from here to there
You moved your head from your hand when I looked
We did what we could but not what it took