The Joy Formidable - Tendons

Careful of the morning
Careful of the night
Careful of them hunting
The ideas we leave behind
These preachers
and their stories
Drunkards and their vows
We clung onto each other
When there was no one
else around
Tendons that we are
Tendons stretched too far
Tangled up and heavy
Winding steady
Tender in the dark
We’re fractions of a star
Held above a story
for a moment only
I can’t decide
What needs building
What needs digging
What needs filling in
This love
This love is like a swarm
We can’t see through it
We can’t hold thorns
Tendons that we are
Tendons stretched too far
Tangled up and heavy
Winding steady
Tender in the dark
We’re fractions of a star
Held above a story
for a moment only
Until it breaks clean
Until it takes me
Until we hollow the thought
Nothing this close
can enjoy permanence
I think I understand
The past is circling
Nothing that’s lit can be in
flames this long
You said you said
I had all the fighting maybe
Maybe it’s something
Maybe it’s real
Not faded like flowers from
yesterday’s field
Aimless on a fated road
This life it keeps us hunting
cos I’m not home
Throw my bones
Empty me
Held so tight
That’s all I see
Let your grief pour into me
Tell me now is this
what you wanted
Is this what you wanted
Let yourself pour into me
Tendons that we are tendons
stretched too far