The Clearing

Sleep for Sleepers The Clearing Lyrics
1.Bravery

Hey brothers, have you been told?
Some can act like filthy monsters.
When we?re left out on our own.
We walk on their ceilings and call out their names.
Pretend you?re in love to become like the rest of us.

Eager eyes tend to get what they want.
When they learn to crawl on their hands and knees.
They?re taught how to feast on the flesh that?s beneath.
We build on lust, far from bravery.
Where?s our faith this time? This time!

Hey sisters, have you been shown?
That you?re much more than bodies,
used to dance on their floors.
They call out for you all night and all day.
The gentlemen beg! And they beg!
And they beg! And they beg!

Eager eyes tend to get what they want.
When they learn to crawl on their hands and knees.
They?re taught how to feast on the flesh that?s beneath.
We build on lust, far from bravery.
Where?s our faith this time? This time!

Eager eyes tend to get what they want.
When they learn to crawl on their hands and knees.
They?re taught how to feast on the flesh that?s beneath.
We build on lust, far from bravery.
Where?s our faith this time? This time!


2.Thieves And Bones

I met a man who knew what love was from the start.
He told me, ?Try to live this way.?
He told me, ?There?s thieves
who try to take more than their hands can hold.
If you pretend you?ve got it all, you?re wrong.?

We take in the cold, just to make it on our own.
Like our mother?s warmth. Mother?s warmth.
We have bones that can bruise!
And surely the skin that can prove?

I met a thief who had an addiction with his hands.
He told me, ?Never live this way.?
He told me, ?
We know how to set these hills on fire with both our hands tied
behind our backs.
Our hands are tied behind our backs.?

We take in the cold, just to make it on our own.
Like our mother?s warmth. Mother?s warmth.
We have bones that can bruise!
And surely the skin that can prove?
That we are all alike. That we are all alike.

We take in the cold, just to make it on our own.
We have bones that can bruise!
And surely the skin that can prove?


3.Foreign

Take me to the right.
I like to pretend I?ve got this all figured out.
When we step into the light?
My nerves start to shake, but I feel I?ve wanted to.
Let?s keep this foreign. Let?s keep this safe and sound.
Just like each lie we?ve told within each town.
I?ve heard them whispering of love and grace.
And they?ve always called my name.

If I would have known I could have come better prepared for
this.
Just move from left to right, I swear that you?ll get it.
If I would have known I could have come better prepared for
this.
Just move from left to right, I swear that you?ll get it.
Take me to the left.
I know it hurts to speak with fire beside your voice.
Step into the light.
My legs tend to shake when they are aching to move.
What was it like?
My hands were shaking, hands were shaking.
And I?ll always know where I stand.
We?ve seen the dark, we?ve seen the light.
And I think it?s time we find ourselves within this light.

If I would have known I could have come better prepared for
this.
Just move from left to right, I swear that you?ll get it.
If I would have known I could have come better prepared for
this.
Just move from left to right, I swear that you?ll get it.


If I would have known I could have come better prepared for
this.
Just move from left to right, I swear that you?ll get it.
Just move from left to right (Hands were shaking!)
Just move from left to right (Hands were shaking!)
Just move from left to right, I swear that you?ve got it in you.
We?ve all got it in us too!


4.Keep Your Voices

If years could tell our stories.
Eyes so bright and air so cold.
All for this hidden glory.
With a story to unfold.
And if you could feel this weather.
All the seasons underneath.
Keeping voices altogether.
Taking roads we?ve never seen.

And this town will cease to exist.
But I will sleep a part of it tonight.
We?ve got to get this right.
And where the sea meets the sky.
I?ll meet you there with opened eyes.
To tell your love tonight.

There?s a world over there.
By the ships without a care.
Setting sails against the wind.
And welcoming the waters in.

And they say, ?Oh! Oh! We?re going down!?
But no one hears a sound.
And ?Oh! Oh! We?re going down again!?

And this town will cease to exist.
But I will sleep a part of it tonight.
Get It! Get it!
We?ve got to get this right.
And where the sea meets the sky.
I?ll meet you there with opened eyes.
To tell your love tonight.

Children keep your voices down.
We will follow sound.
Keep your voices down.
We will follow sound.
And this town will cease to exist.
But I will sleep a part of it tonight.
Get it! Get it!
We?ve got to get this right.


5.Statelines

I?ve been stretching every word miles apart from each other.
And I?ve been starving states.
While you?ve been miles away.
To the tired eyes conversing in the scenes they are rehearsing.
Have I been begging you to stay?

You paint my eyes when they are tired.
By miles as far as the eye can see.
When I don?t know who to believe.
When your bones could compare to the places that I?ve seen.
And the states that I?ve starved will insist on chasing me.
It seems I?m begging you to stay.

And I?ve been pacing through these rooms
statelines apart from each other.
And I have starved the air.
I have starved myself.
Spend the afternoon on the ground.
Brighter eyes for every town.
Each city is like a disease.

You paint my eyes when they are tired.
By miles as far as the eye can see.
When I don?t know who to believe.
When your bones could compare to the places that I?ve seen.
And the states that I?ve starved will insist on chasing me.
It seems I?m begging you to stay.
Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, ohhh.

You paint my eyes when they are tired.
By miles as far as the eye can see.
When I don?t know who to believe.
When your bones could compare to the places that I?ve seen.
And the states that I?ve starved will insist on chasing me.
It seems I?m begging you to stay.
Begging you to stay-ay.


6.The Harbor

We?ll sleep in our fears so far from the dark.
We?ll harbor our thoughts so close to the light.
Where rain tries to change with every breath.
We?ll come down to rest these lives we?ve led.
Watch the moon, it begs to be seen.
By honest eyes and lights that breath.
See the sun?
It fights for the air.
Have you been asleep?
Are you asleep? Asleep.
Are you asleep? Asleep.
Are you asleep? Asleep.
Awake to see the sun.


7.The Fearless

I?ll be awake for 80 years.
More so asleep for 21.
Like a child fighting fears?
Who watched his nerves come undone.
Like the vultures ache for air.
Even bones beneath the skin.
I thirst for who you are. You are.
To see your fearless sea for all that it is.
Rediscover the bones that I?ve hid.
Oh god, what have I done?
To crawl and feel your mercy course through my veins.
Set a path for who?s weak and ashamed.
Love me for who I am.
And who I?ve been.
Are there any fearless men
who search for answers in the dark?
Who climb far beyond their thoughts?
With hopes to finish what they start?
Like the vultures ache for air.
Even skin between their teeth.
I?m starved to say at the least. The least.
To see your fearless sea for all that it is.
Rediscover the bones that I?ve hid.
Oh god, what have I done?
To crawl and feel your mercy course through my veins.
Set a path for who?s weak and ashamed.
Love me for who I am.
And who I?ve been. Been. Yeah!

Ooh. Ooh. Ooh.Ooh.
Cut these wrists; tie my hands, my hands!
If I could, I?d shed my skin.
Oh god! Do you love me for who I am?


8.Twilight

We drove out of this town.
We looked back but quickly turned around.
We stayed until the moon had morning light, yet never still.

And it?s everything, everything!
It?s not a dream, not a dream!
We?re safe away, away!
And it?s the energy, energy!
Stop looking back, baby.
We?re safe away, away!

We drove into the night.
The cold had met her breath, but we were fine.
And She said, ?Boy let?s get away.
We can start a life in a different place.?

And it?s everything, everything!
It?s not a dream, not a dream!
We?re safe away, away!
And it?s the energy, energy!
Stop looking back, baby.
We?re safe away, away!
Isn?t falling in love so simple?
It?s so simple.
Let?s be brave.
And baby it?s the things they don?t know that keep me wishing.
That keep me guessing.

And it?s the energy, energy!
Stop looking back, baby.
We?re safe away, away!


9.The Distance

For you are the sight of my eyes.
For you breathe between every line. (Is this love?)
The love it takes to give your heart away.
What defines my heart is what?s best for you.
Where tired eyes are willing to prove.
That I?ll be here forever.
At your bedside.
Never leave my sight.
If there?s distance, there?s persistence too?

When our love is opening their eyes for the first time.
They?ll have your eyes like you?ve had mine. Whoa-oh.
If my words can?t define the lights
that compete with the voice of my eyes when you?re gone.
Then I?m far away!!!

At your bedside.
Never leave my sight.
If there?s distance, there?s persistence too?

I will stay until the sun, until the sun arrives.
Even then I?ll be by your side.


10.The Sea

Listen to my voice and let the sound invite.
The sea will take you in.
Will take you in by night.
I?ll be the first to arrive.
We?ll be the last to go.
I?ll be the first to arrive.
We?ll be the last to go.
I?ll be the first to arrive.
We?ll be the last to go.
I?ll be the first to arrive.
I will never let you go.
You are everything that I have ever dreamed of.
My love, my love was resting in your arms, but now it?s yours.


Open the doors, just to let her in.
She walks down the rows.
A new life waits to begin.
My dear, oooh, how does this make you feel?
A man after your own heart?
As I uncover the veil.


11.Love Is For The Foolish

Dear, do you have an idea of what love is?
I?d like to know because I?m sure we don?t have a clue.
If I had to guess?
I would take forever?
To explain the way I feel when I?m with you.
This is simple.
This is testing.

Boy, calm your fears with every breath she breathes.
Ohh. Ohh. Ohh. Ohhh.
Go to sleep tonight.
Just for tonight.
I?ll be here when you wake up dear.
When the light meets your eyes.
I swear I?ll be here for you, dear.
I swear I?ll be here for you, dear.

Sleep is for sleepers?
And we, we are like them.
Love is for the foolish.
What fools will we become? Become.
Go to sleep tonight.
Just for tonight.
I?ll be here when you wake up dear.
When the light meets your eyes.
I swear I?ll be here for you, dear.
I swear I?ll be here for you-ooh-ooh dear.


12.The Clearing

Who am I that I should not admire?
That I should not want to love.
You?ve been the same from what I can remember.
It?s been a year and I haven?t changed.

Dimmer lights search for the dark
when they can?t find rest for themselves.
I?ve searched through valleys and fought in cold.
But never found rest in me.

Eager eyes, would you lean in here?
Would you face your fears?
For I am convinced that it?s love that you?ve shown me.
While I?ve tested seasons in search for your glory.
Ohhh.
Dimmer lights search for the dark
when they can?t find rest for themselves.
I?ve searched through valleys and fought in cold.
But never found rest in myself.

I have two bloody hands! (With scars that can prove.)
I tried to fight fears! (Instead I fought you.)
When will I learn? (Of all that I?m worth?)
More than I?m told! (More than I?ve heard.)
This is the process, the process!
The Process of finding who I am.
Finding who I am. Finding who I am.