The Icy Shores - The Opposite Of Your Heart

01. This Alarm

nothing's killing you like i am drowning you with mild attention

(this alarm)
someone's going to hear it but not me

nothing gets to me like you can when you apologize for things i've done

but we keep pushing you under burying you
with our fingers down your throat we demand

where are the things you promised
as you take the blame
and what was it that i wanted
when i called your name

i can't get your bloody hands off me

02. Parasthesia

what's the point of vanity in this stupid world we live in
where nothing can stay beautiful for long
you speak again
when you're home i'm not so frightened so i fall asleep to feel you arrive

i can't feel my hands when i touch your face
with these dead fingers your scars feel new again
and when i hit your face it reminds me of the time we said
that love does the hardest work of all

are you alive or are we having second thoughts
are you alright
well then stop pushing away
are we a victory or are we an iron lung
and are we letting it out

because i don't want to be a part of a second coming if our tapes turn to memories
and i never feel us swallowing the moment as you're mining the sea

can i keep you with me or are you killing me with every breath boarding up your heart
but the light is seeping through i can't see through it as you break our home in two

03. Almost Ready

the hardest part is that i'm never me and you're never you
but we're putting it on and wearing it out tonight staying alive

it's impossible all the same
living is our only way out this time
but you're right to say that even with the way that i've been

but you don't push and my way of relating is to never even try

and my clumsy way of always dropping it makes it alright

04. Dumb With Distance

through every countryside in silence i have followed you
and with every breath held inside i have waited

i start in ignoring every word dumb with distance and impossible
i whisper it to sleep but tell me are we speaking the language
in front of you

you carefully deny the key as i run to find it

how is it that you always know what i'm thinking when i haven't even told my heart yet
and how is it that you know when i can't tell the truth when i haven't even told my heart yet

blocking out the sirens
i punish my good ear with the sound
my gift of hearing has got nothing on your sight
but can you speak the truth?
can you open up the sea?
because the blood in my mouth is reporting that you haven't told me everything

05. Indian Summer

at any moment you will open your eyes as your breath walks me to sleep
and each bone that crumbles beneath the weight of my heart is your own prize to keep

and is your heart beating does your chest fall and rise
and what is the meaning of the twitch beneath your eyes

indelibly as each remark you make is committed to memory

don't go, don't go
you won't go

i know the summer is too long but you haven't seen anything yet

06. Family Album

vicariously as the wheels fall off timed to the last four beats of your heart
and we brush it off as just a sound impenetrably
i stumble with the words as you hide the bodies of our enemies

as the water runs back everything has been arranged
looking back to see at this house in flames like our hearts
slowly opening to retreat invited by the knife
but just say it once for me

as we fake the emergency
and our fists turn to fingers as we starve it into atrophy
in flames! in flames!
this gift is a cancer and i will sneak the punch while you're not looking

darling, it's just the medicine
and this is just a way of showing that i care

as we count every enemy i am blinded by the vision
but you will never see the price i've fetched
in flames! in flames!
if this is what will kill me then i will sneak the punch while you're not looking

07. Hey Watchpot

hey watchpot if you'd only turn the other cheek to me
i'm not saying that it's already over
hey shitbird i'm plucking out your eyes two by two
as you cry that i don't understand

as i clip your wings i see we are of a single feather
but your spiny legs will never admit it

every chance i get it's such a pleasure breaking you in two
and as your feathers melt into my hand i must concede it's true

08. Old Science

well i've been starved for weight with nothing holding me
so tell me what you mean as forevers become memory

we're so lonely just like you wanted it to be
are we souls away from victory

but when you call out when you reach out your hand there's always someone there
when you cry out when you stumble in darkness there's always something to lead you back
when i fall out when i drop from the clouds there's nothing there to catch me

"it never ends again when you come back to me" is what you want to see inside of me
but if all of this is just to teach me memory then throw me out to sea when you tire of me

09. The House At The End Of The Street

goodnight all the world
sewing souls to sleep in crowded rooms

we're untied from the world
sewing enemies from open wounds

but i fought too long and are we ever ending?
well i hope you're wrong because when they open it to see
well here it is, delivered like a victory deep underneath

but with tapes like memories what did we want them all to see
can i sleep

in gray skies we know the truth falling in the night
are we almost through
so goodnight take me away from here
falling in to you

and as we put them all to sleep what of the one we hardly see
is it me

10. Where Are You Taking My Heart?

alone we tell the truth but it's on the inside that's your line
in everything we do we're on the inside of your life

no way it's falling on me pulling out the knife when i admit it

are we ever overdue when it's on the inside of your heart

some day it's all in the way we say, doubled over in our special way
tell me this is it alarming and where is it you're taking my heart
all these wounds why are they on me is the truth so disarming

is it all the same in love and war it's never true
but as the words fall from your mouth i fall in love with you
but if all that's left in this life is watching you disappear into the tide

when you say you want to love me it's that it's already over
when you swear it's not me it's that you're already sober
and i swear it's not me, it's that you're already paid for
but inside me is where you'll never get older

All Songs by The Icy Shores, Published by The Icy Shores Music Pants (ASCAP)