Help Me Breathe Lyrics - Singles - Sophie B. Hawkins

A silent woman parts her lips to speak before she ought 

She makes a cross of her emotions and a panic of her thoughts 

Out of her mouth she comes in rages like Vesuvius in heat 

She runs ahead of her intentions though shes programmed for defeat 

By the hunger and the hatred the prostitution of her nature 

She has given and forgiven for to give her Kunt forgave her 

To the longing for a loving hand or fist or cock or spike 

But you know you cannot reach her 'til shes taken back her life 

A lonely child of fourteen finds her future in a drum 

She plays for present day omissions and for whom she must become 

Out of her passion breaks the stillness of a solitary mind 

A strict devotion to the rhythm with a substitute for time 

She looks out of her window at the changes in the sky 

She never wants to leave her sanctuary bedroom books and lies 

But shes grown up on the outside with an instinct for the pain 

That drives the men inside her wild and women wanting her insane 

Both lovers bring their cameras to the beach on New Years Eve 

They are expecting nothing other than to see what they believe 

Four feet walking toward the lighthouse in the freezing winter rain 

She flashes stately in the distance humming her somnolent refrain 

You are here now you are here now there is nothing left to fear now 

With each step the sunk is sinking though the truth is less unclear now 

They have won a thousand battles they have wrung their own demise 

Now they are standing still and weeping for a love they cant despise 

A silent woman and a lonely child have nowhere else to go 

But to the lighthouse in December before the New Year takes its toll 

They have found inside each other what they had lost within themselves 

Now they are bonded to forever in their search for something else 

Generations like the water shape the face of every stone 

A pedigrees an invitation to discover youre alone 

Out in the kitchen or the courtyard or the bedroom or the bank 

It only takes a fateful moment to become the one you thank 

And light shall lift them higher and higher 

And dreams shall carry them on and loss shall lead them 

To lifes final hour where death shall overcome