Her Arms Around Me

Crawling through a war zone on barbed wire,
Thought I'd escape the war crawling under fire,
The branches I've clung have never reached the sky,
And below the crash my wounds have never dried,
A sculpture wrought my heart with craggy hands,
Chipping away at the rock walls can't withstand,
Dirt mounts over wounds and covers them like graves,
A black widow watching over forsaken roads she paved

Don't go back to find what you still don't know,
I've started switching through stations on the radio,
There's bound to be some comfort in familiar songs,
About fixing that busted flat and rolling along,
Behind me she spins webs as punctured wheels whirl,
As screeching smoke ablates the figure of a girl,
Ghostly haze clutched to a mystified automobile,
Just picking up dust after falling asleep at the wheel

Turn this car around at the very next chance,
From my rear view mirror rifts a shattered romance,
Looking ahead for the first time since I drove,
Through disappearing smoke fierce thorns of a rose,
My thundering engine beats like a heart in pain,
These highways colliding like drums on every vain,
It's hard to remind myself that it's at an end,
When I can't be sure if I'll make it past the bend

The man in the moon always dreams before he sings,
Only to fall victim to these recurring winter winds,
My shivering just encourages waltzing hellions,
Nailing down my haven as the earth comes undone,
There's a man in the moon too restless to wait,
I just wake up and feel that it's getting so late,
Back roads I've been led to can't take me back home,
Moonlight shinning on stormy roads like ocean foam

Looking distantly through the night's stormy air,
Dusty cliffs facing storms are flooding out there,
Leaning on branches swaying fro in the storm,
Twighlight wings lifted will not keep you warm,
Ravens fly from limb to limb despite the freeze,
Spinning their shadowy webs between the trees,
From hill tops my heart hums the most somber tune,
Oh, what a large void that the night has strewn

Somebody shook this entire universe around,
I'm still trapped inside it and can't utter a sound,
A rattling noise has enveloped my distant ears,
Smothering a voice so faint that stars would never hear,
Been trapped under the night's collapse looking up,
Through rain and sleet having fastened me shut,
Feels like the light is finally breaking through,
Her arms around me, she's the one I feel closest to