mtns. (the crown & anchor)

you're never awake

but you don't seem to sleep at all

those stolen flowers inside your guts

will take you away

steady the hand that lays the child to bed

barbitals and decay

the crown and the anchor

you'll curse at the sky

three words for which the boys have no names

how many beasts in the night

to take you away

what quivers and shakes?

what fills your stomach and clogs your veins?

whose claws do scratch at your wooden limbs?

and tear you away

steady the hand that lays the child to bed

barbitals and decay

the crown and the anchor

we will never sleep

we will never wake

we will drift away

we will never sleep

we will never wake

we will drift away