Jocasta Lyrics - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down - Noah & The Whale

When the baby's born 

Oh, let's turn it to the snow 

So that ice will surely grow 

Over weak and brittle bones 

Oh, let's leave it to the wolves 

So their teeth turn it to food 

Oh, its flesh keeps them alive 

Oh, its death helps life survive 

Oh, the world can be kind in its own way 

Oh well, your future's a machine 

With the mechanics of a dream 

And it's your mind that spins the wheel 

And your heart that makes you feel 

All the guilt for all your sins 

Oh, as that wheel spins 

Oh well, it plays as they believed 

And for your husband you have grieved 

Oh, the world still deceives you as it turns 

And in my lucid moments I could see 

Oh, that the heart may be the weakest part of me 

Oh, and the moon controls the movements of the tide 

Oh, but it has no weight on the movements of my mind 

But if you turn your hands to flames 

Oh, the light will burn the same 

Whether you just pass it through 

Or if it's what you meant to do 

And your sense of comparability 

Is from the Gods that you perceive 

Their constant lies that you believe 

Will show you grace 

Oh, when you turn to a ghost 

Oh, but now the love you found 

Just lays you down on the muddy ground 

And oh, the death will let you down 

'Cause your verse will still go on the same