Preybirds (The Watched Version)

Music: Stephan Nance/Natalie Timmerman (Ooh) Birds of prey spiral around my head They hiss songs of your birth They caw visions of death I’ve watched it happen again and again (haunted by) A thousand kind beginnings and a thousand bloodied ends I shouldn’t play with fate But what if once I could make you safe?
So while you think you’re alone You cast two shadows down the road Where you have buried all your past lives’ bones The two red suns in the sky blink, my pity-filled eyes Hoping the heartlines will change this time If you’d just look up, I could be your guide Why can’t I catch your eye how you’ve caught tens of mine? Eye in the sun You’re all I see Why won’t you look at me?
(Ooh) (I’m the embers bright) (Flitting lighting flies) (Blinks my eye in the sun) (In the hints of split sky) (Ooh) (I'm the dying fire) (In the birthing light) (And I’ll break every bind) (That I’m blighted by)
You’re blind to all my warning cries (ooh) When I speak in dust devils, crop circles, flocks of mayflies (Ooh) So I’ve no choice but to come down Pardon my steps shaking the ground (ha)
So while you think you’re alone You cast two shadows down the road Where you have buried all your past lives’ bones The two red suns in the sky blink, my pity-filled eyes Hoping the heartlines will change this time But the birds on my shoulders prepare for a feast You can taste it in the air, the soon-to-be dead meat Eye in the sun You’re all I see Why don’t you look at me?
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
At the highest ridge In the thunder's crash I will bear my scars To the lightning's lash I will kneel at the sound Of a violent cry And I'll kiss every sword That I'm conquered by
Your breath heaves down my nape, wrestlin’ me ‘way But you’re too late My body rests, dagger in chest The heart in my hands drips As my soul crawls from splintered ribs To eclipse your head and beg again For revenge
Oh, you may think you’re alone if you hide from the shadows You can bury bones but not the souls And two red suns in the sky will be the light to build your pyre They’re my blank and pitiless eyes Every death births a bird to this wretched flock Forever tethered to your life but cursed to only watch Catastrophe Repeat until You look at me
(Ooh) (So while you think you’re alone You cast two shadows down the road (Where you have buried all your past lives’ bones) Look at me
(Ooh) (See my two sun eyes, feel my slow moving thighs) (Tumbling dust in a dimming tide) One day I’ll come reckoning
(Ooh) (Hear the squabble angry caws of our wretched flock) (Forever tethered to your life but cursed to only watch) Wearing the feathers of our souls as wings (Catastrophe, look at me, look at me)
(Ooh) (At the highest ridge) (In the thunder's crash) (I will bear my scars) (To the lightning's lash) (I will kneel at the sound) (Of a violent cry) (And I'll kiss every sword) (That I'm conquered by)
(Ooh) (I’m the embers bright) (Flitting lighting flies) (Blinks my eye in the sun) (In the hints of split sky) (In the dying fire) (I’m the birthing light) (And I’ll…)