Swept Inside Lyrics - In Evening Air - Future Islands

By the shattered coils of another's arms 

And swept inside like the rains that weep 

That fell away when your girlish charms 

Cried out to take on motherhood 

She waits by the windowsill 

All wrapped in white and puzzling 

What happened to the child inside 

Who ran the streets in the days at night 

She says nothing seems the same 

And I can't change a thing 

Her body's like a wave 

Breaking to the sea 

She says everything seems strange 

Locked behind the years 

But life is ours to find 

In the days at night 

There passes a stranger every eve 

Who walks himself on a silver leash 

And in his head the world's asleep 

Awakens in his hands believed 

When he was young 

He had a dream 

To be a star on the movie screen 

But now it all seems a silly lie 

As he walks alone in the days on fire 

He says nothing seems the same 

And I can't feel a thing 

My body's like a wave 

Caving in on me 

He says everything seems strange 

Holding back the tears 

And he smiles just like a child 

In the days at night 

Mother, of song 

You'll find the right way to cherish, in dreams, 

All of the snow frozen 

Father, in time 

You'll find a world that's so perfect and cold 

All of the snow frozen 

Mother, of song 

You'll find the right way to cherish, in dreams, 

All of the snow frozen 

Father, in time 

You'll find a world that's so perfect and cold 

All of the snow frozen 

Mother, of song 

You'll find the right way to cherish, in dreams, 

All of the snow frozen 

Father, in time 

You'll find a world that's so perfect and cold 

All of the snow frozen 

Mother, of song 

You'll find the right way to cherish, in dreams, 

All of the snow frozen 

Father, in time 

You'll find a world that's so perfect and cold 

All of the snow frozen