circumstances Lyrics

I was sleeping when the fire hit the back of the barn

Creeping up the lilies, infesting our lungs

Tethered to a feeling that soon left a scar

Circumstances like this make us who we are

I was swimming in the bathtub in the middle of the lawn

Clinging on to my youth like an arrow to a fawn

Purging my complexion, erasing the scars

Embracing my reflection in the suffocating fog

Toil my grave

This looming tower

I know this face

I see it all the time

Flowers for the girl

With an honest heart

In a foreign land

Washed away in the flood

Under sea and stone

Buried in the brittle soil we stand