Beautiful Birds Flying

Cutting off the light
 Like I would an engine
 Walking through the night
 Like I've gone missing
 Missing from the place I live
 Missing from my brain I guess
 ♪
 Looking for some good
 In another's hand
 Looking for a life
 I could understand
 There's violence in the ways I left
 Violence in the way again
 Even then
 You come in nightly
 Even in a dream I'd spun
 Even in the summer sun
 I could not run
 Glistening or faded
 I'm sitting where it all began
 I gave up on a promised land
 But you were my friend
 Aging
 Now I feel it
 It's always slipping through my hands
 It wasn't what I thought back then
 When beautiful birds were flying
 Beautiful birds were flying
 Circles in the sky
 I'm finding
 My way with them
 ♪
 Looking at the sky
 For an opening
 Looking for some life
 On an empty screen
 There's violence in the ways I live
 Violence on my mind
 Trace it
 ♪
 So I'm turning on the light
 When I let you in
 I open up my mind
 With a new question
 Now how could you possibly be
 Now what could you possibly need
 Nothing
 Now I face it
 There's nothing on the other side
 I want to live inside your life
 With violence on my only mind
 When beautiful birds were flying
 Beautiful birds were flying
 Circles in the sky
 I'm finding
 My way with them