How's it stand? What are we? Let that sand flush my cheeks Wear me out Keep me clean Keep me longing Keep that quiet company Wear me out I heard a voice telling me
Like your smoke waving And my eyes repine Wear me out That wick wont burn away It's giving uneven rings Wear me out Like a sister haunting absence Like a sister who's finally had it
Like a room left open just for being kept Like some lonely facet Like the promise of a place and knowing You're neither here nor there Wear me out And the tree tops like crooked beliefs Cross hatch crows feet reaching For the Baltimore heat
And I repine faster and faster now Your wick wont burn away What are we without regret? What are we? Wear me out What are we without that end? Without that death? That darkness?
Wear me out There's so many parallels from then until now We try to believe We keep telling ourselves It's a flaw that can't be faked I heard a voice passing through And I know it's never you And I know what I'm looking to find And I repine faster and faster now Your wick wont burn away
