The Lake And The River Lyrics - The Dear Hunter

Everything you'd live and die for 

Reasons leading you through here 

Perished matriarchal bonds 

Failing innocence of love 

When the world beckons your approach 

It swallows you whole 

You'll believe what you're led to believe 

In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible 

Wait to see what you're meant to see 

The veil lifts when you expose your soul 

Pray'd I would leave this place someday 

Joined to alarm from long ago now unconcerned 

Euphorically floating upon wax wings where is the sun? 

I still see her face; her beauty, her grace 

Transfixed like a light in front of me 

It follows my soul 

And swallows me whole 

You'll believe what you're led to believe 

In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible 

Wait to see what you're meant to see 

The veil lifts when you expose your soul 

Left, right, left, right... 

His branches reached so far before 

His leaves were bold extremities with great control 

Wasted along; he died alone 

You'll believe what you're led to believe 

In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible 

Wait to see what you're meant to see 

The veil lifts when you expose your soul 

She's inanimate, bloodless elegance 

Fatal fascination breeds a bloom of misery 

Helpless hiding tongues, bathed in revulsion 

Here lies possibility wilting premature 

But the right hand hates the left and the sea's upset with the sky 

So we press on in spite of the spite 

Happiness is a knife when the worlds on its side and your minds on fire 

Trying to find the trouble with the trouble I've found 

Begging my god to make the wheels go round 

Eat so much but I never get full 

Earth opened up and swallowed us whole