Tread On

[Verse 1] Pale light bleeding through a white wool sky, The Seine is dragging heavy, running rapid... I'm blind. Sedge-grass catching on a worn-out boot, Ain’t a bird in the brushes, ain't a leaf on the root. Sun is just a yellow dime, choking in the whey, I’d ask the Lord for pardon, but I forgot how to pray. [Chorus] Tread on. Through the sickening freeze. Tread on. Through the rotting leaves. I’m the last breathing thing walking upright from the clay, Serving out a sentence for a crime that slipped away. [Verse 2] Got a hundred-year rust on a thousand-year bone, I outlived the makers and I outlived their stone. There’s a heavy, heavy ledger, but the ink is washed clean, Forgot who I ruined and I forgot what it means. I'm just a phantom that refuses to die, Looking for the judge of the dead, in the sky. [Chorus] Tread on. Through the sickening freeze. Tread on. Through the rotting leaves. I’m the last breathing thing walking upright from the clay, Serving out a sentence for a crime that slipped away. [Bridge] Water don't talk, and the fog don't care. Just my haggard breathing in the empty air. If I reach the ocean, will it cut me loose? Or is the river just a rope, and the water just a noose? [Outro] Tread on Forget my name Tread on Dead all the same Tread on