Flood from Yellowbird EP by Yellowbird

Fever dreams on weekday nights
A starving of my appetite
It's hard to stay close
So I stay far

My daddy taught me how to lie
My mom, she taught how to swallow
Some people just choke
Some just follow

But if I wanted to be free
I should have listened carefully
They want you to plead
Show them those teeth and crawl out from underneath

Well I don't know what you expected us to say
We want you to believe and pray
We want you to show your face

Well if you think that you're exempt from all the
Sorrow that you swept
You better curb your judgment
A flood is comin' in
Grab your rudders
A flood is comin' in

So would you stay here?
(It's no hurricane
Though winds would sway and board our windows shut
The nights are stone
I've been alone digging holes where they shouldn't go)

So would you ground me?
(It worked out that way, love
No way to unsee what's been seen)

Crawl out from underneath
(The days are blistered)
Though every word is wild and cheap
(From petty words)

If you say that you don't miss me
Well I'll crawl back underneath your feet
And I'll stay there 'til you listen
'Til your empathy outweighs your fear

If you say that you don't like it
When the chains around your neck tighten
Well I can't let you impress me
Keep you wrapped in that florescent light

Just say that you are hungry
For some taste that I can't manage
I could change all of my atoms
So I could have a fair advantage, oh lord

(It's no hurricane)
If you say that-
(Though winds would sway and board our windows shut
The nights are stone, I've been alone
Digging holes where they shouldn't go)

-You don't love me
(It worked out that way, love
No way to unsee what's been seen)
It's just a figment of my imagination

Until I wake, and you are gone

• Acoustic
• Alternative
• emo
• folk rock
• indie folk
• Jackson