[Verse 1] I'm in a blacked-out room Can't find the floor Then a tiny light Drifts in through the door It circles my eyes Like it knows my name And it brushes the dark Till the shadow gets shape [Pre-Chorus] Round and round it goes Slow as a breath One small spark Pulling the rest And I look again At the thing it reveals An old tree standing In a field of steel [Chorus] My thoughts, my lights (My thoughts, my lights) They land on the tree And the branches ignite My thoughts, my lights (My thoughts, my lights) Leaf by leaf, they shine In the black of night [Verse 2] No leaves on the limbs Just weather and bone A winter of wood And a silence of stone Then another spark Breaks loose in me And the dead old crown Starts breathing with green [Pre-Chorus] Every image I hold Turns into gold Every dark little room Lets something unfold And the tree won't stand As a empty disguise It wears all my ideas Like a hundred small eyes [Chorus] My thoughts, my lights (My thoughts, my lights) They land on the tree And the branches ignite My thoughts, my lights (My thoughts, my lights) Leaf by leaf, they shine In the black of night [Bridge] If I reach for one It becomes a road If I keep it alive It begins to grow Now the old trunk glows From root to crown What was once alone Won't fade back down [Chorus] My thoughts, my lights (My thoughts, my lights) They land on the tree And the branches ignite My thoughts, my lights (My thoughts, my lights) Leaf by leaf, they shine In the black of night
