Lyrics The Body - Burning Love

The Body

Digging deep down in the vaults
Grabbing on to anything that holds
Any nerve thats still alive down there
Reach your hand into the hole, come up with broken bits of
The proof you’re looking for, that you were ever anywhere at all
Your '79s.
The innocence of simpler times
You can’t have them back
But could you build this room from scratch if you tried?
Close your eyes, cross over to the other side
Can you bring him back to life?
Recreate Initial State?
I remember everything, and I want the fixtures back
If I can shut out everything I know
I’d trade it all — to conjure one morning of life
When all was happy oblivion and nothing was your problem yet
You know you can’t have it all
But down in the hole, you can lose yourself in shadow worlds
What you resist persists, what you look at disappears
Then what is this you’re fighting?
There’s only smoke and mirrors here
You’re all alone in a long dead broken home
Staring down the boy lost in a midnight move so many lives ago
In a living room encased in formaldehyde
The body floats, stares right back into your eyes
And he says «Sir can’t you take me with you?
I’ve been here all these years
There’s nothing tactile in this room.»
He says «Sir please take me with you
I am your missing proof
We’ll take the other side
And bomb it all back to the womb.»
Close your eyes.
Crawl inside
All your spells can’t bring him back to life