Lyrics My Sister's Palace - The Herd

My Sister's Palace

My sister I hear you calling
You feel your world has fallen
Gather your possessions
Muster up your strength and walk away
My brother now I’m pleading
My sister needs to leave now
Let her leave with safety
No need for more chasing again
Sister mother daughter
Not treated how you oughta
Cut off by a river
Someone burnt the bridge
Random acts of malice
From up inside your palace
Wall’s too tall for scaling
Who’s gonna do the saving
I wait for your arrival
To know that you’re surviving
Smoke I see arising
Way upon horizon
Far from other shores
Escaping any laws
Get into that boat
With your hands upon those oars
None of this shit made sense
All of the biblical rules that it went against
What are fences for, to keep the trouble out right?
What if the trouble is in, who will save them then?
And the walls are thin, they hear him go at it again
Quietly sobbing, her brother his holding her hand
They dare not turn on the light
For fear of worsening the fight
So alone and frozen, both eyes open
Every sound magnified in the dead of the night
Their mum pleads and begs him please
Tears wiped away with pyjama sleeves
Life went about its business of bearing its teeth
Big brother being brave gets up
Little sister says stop
In the kitchen a glass drops
As a kid, dad’s so big
Enough to drag em all down in the hole he digs
She is so withdrawn in class
But there’s a world in her head
That they never thought to ask
I doubt she would tell them anyway
I asked her the other day
Are your parents going to the PTA
She said they’d gone away
Something volatile behind her eyes
That makes them nervous
And they haven’t got the strength to ask
To scratch the surface
So she sits in class drawing rowboats in silence
Drifting away from a tower rising from an island
Her brother’s got her back
But he’s not always within range
So she fights her own battles
Girls think she’s strange
No teachers that I’ve asked would even know her name
And would barely notice
If she never even came to class
I wish that her shame would pass
And mine would dissolve as fast
As the dreams of six year olds
She is so much older than her tender years
I wish I could do something to end the tears
Her eyes like a bottomless lake
Deep and clear
I wish I could do something to end the fear