The picture is wrong

[Intro] [Instrumental] [Verse 1] A faded halo by the stove lifts one pale hand through smoke and gold. The trash fire crackles low, like something praying through the cold. I breathe a circle through the frost and fit the whole town in the glass. An ash-grey mutt beneath the heating pipe lies coiled and lets the daylight pass. I couldn’t tell you what the year is from the weather gathered here. I catch my face reflected there - and something in the eyes looks strangely clear. [Chorus] The picture is wrong. There’s too much light behind these eyes. The picture is wrong. The mouth has learned a crooked line. Something holy stayed awake while everything around it changed. Look at me long enough - Oh-oh... the picture is wrong. [Instrumental] [Verse 2] A guest moved in so quietly I never heard him cross the floor. By spring he’d learned the prayers by heart and started answering the door. The world picked clean its final bone, then dressed the table for the feast. We raised our empty glasses high to whatever had replaced belief. I used to think a sacred room could tell the blessed from the profane. Now heaven leaves the guest bed made and never asks who changed the name. [Chorus] The picture is wrong. There’s too much light behind these eyes. The picture is wrong. The mouth has learned a crooked line. Something holy stayed awake while everything around it changed. Look at me long enough - Oh-oh... the picture is wrong. [Melodic Guitar Theme] [Bridge] By morning every body looks a little more like weather. Snow keeps simplifying us until the outlines run together. The forehead learns the calendar. The jaw remembers every cost. Still something laughs behind the pupils like nobody told it what was lost. I used to think the soul would show through everything we put it through. Now I think it hides in places the face never learned to ruin! [Harmonized Melodic Guitar] [Final Chorus] The picture is wrong. There’s too much light behind these eyes. The picture is wrong. The mouth has learned a crooked line. Something holy stayed awake while everything around it changed. Look at me long enough - Oh-oh... the picture is wrong. [Outro] The feast arrived without the wine. The guest is still upstairs. A faded halo keeps on blessing whatever is still there. The eyes are laughing...