[Verse 1] Stormlight crawling on the ceiling television breathing snow I keep hearing something tapping where the dead wires used to go Wind is bending all the branches rain against the window frame Something black outside the glass keeps returning just the same [Chorus] There’s a bird outside my window black against the storm-lit sky Everybody says it’s nothing but it watches when I cry There’s a shadow in the garden standing where the floodlights die Everybody says I’m dreaming but it never blinks its eyes [Verse 2] Static underneath the music voices buried in the walls I can feel it in the silence right before the darkness calls Feathers shifting in the thunder black water eyes against the rain Every night it waits beside me like it knows my secret name [Bridge] I stopped trying to explain it some things do not need belief Some things simply learn your breathing then remain beside your grief [Final Chorus] There’s a bird outside my window older than the coming storm Everybody says it’s nothing while it waits beside the door And the glass begins to tremble when the house forgets its shape Something ancient keeps on watching just beyond the windowpane
