Only Lonely - The Ballroom Thieves

Composer：Martin Earley/Calin Peters

My fingers are the only bones I want here

She takes me when I share my den and turn my tide

She knows I have a tendency

I make mountains out of stones

And with that timber burn a hundred fires

I've been around and up and down this road before

I've eaten all the seeds you yearn to give

When I was born she made a garland of the broken weeds

I've always worn it and forever she has lived

How did you know

When I would go

When I swim back to you

I can only tread water while you tend to my other

She is only lonely for you

Back when all her quiet words were thunder

And her answers were all crooked little truths

I was heavy as a hazard

In an unmade bed

A spinning lies

With empires for my youth

How did you know

When I would go

When I swim back to you

I can only tread water while you tend to my other

She is only lonely for you

I can build a nest in any scaffold

Dwelling in the revelry I keep

I'm traveling in a nightmare on a map back to the greenhouse

Take me to the garden where daydreams sleep

How did you know

When I would go

When I swim back to you

I can only tread water while you tend to my other

She is only lonely for you

I would I would I would I would I would I