Dropping pennies in the dark Counting seconds 'til the spark You are high above the rim I am learning how to swim In the mercury and mud Decorating all the blood And the avalanche comes down in ribbons Tying up the hands that I was given Singing like a bird inside a drum Waiting for the beat that never comes Is this the festival you said? Or just the noise inside your head? I paint my face with ashes and with gold Doing exactly what I have been told The acrobat has fallen from the wire He landed in the center of the fire But look at how he sparkles as he burns Look at how the heavy table turns I don't have a language for this fear Only sounds that disappear Ooh, la, la, the fracture Ooh, la, la, the rapture The atmosphere is turning into glass I watch the heavy constellations pass You are the moon, the cold and distant eye I am the tide, too heavy and too high Swallowing the shore to reach your feet A bitter kind of love, but very sweet And the avalanche comes down in ribbons Tying up the hands that I was given Singing like a bird inside a drum Waiting for the beat that never comes Is this the festival you said? Or just the noise inside your head? Step over me I am the threshold I am the view Heaven is a colour I never knew
