Thousand Secrets
Blue light breaking in the window glass
And a cool wind shaking in long white grass
The ocean speaks the language of the dawn
Thin sails rising in the autumn sky
And the old men singing while the knots untie
I look back and all the ships are gone
And no one's gonna know
The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow
There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside
And it's a thousand secrets wide
He sold white carnations in a neon bar
And when he turned sixteen he bought a stolen car
And drove all the way to Dallas in the dark
I could fall in love but I'm so d*** young
I try to hold on but then the quick rains come
And every time they fall, it breaks my heart
And no one's gonna know
The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow
There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside
And it's a thousand secrets wide
For every broken branch there is a mile of fallen leaves
But no one knows the river flows a thousand miles deep
Wanna walk on water; wanna walk down stream
I wanna walk back to New Orleans
With the crush of broken glass all in the yard
I wanna quit this city in the midnight hush
Of a pale moon shining on a south bound bus
You never know what you love until you lose it hard
And no one's gonna know
The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow
There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside
And it's a thousand secrets wide
It's a thousand secrets wide
And it's a thousand secrets wide
Blue light breaking in the window glass
And a cool wind shaking in long white grass
The ocean speaks the language of the dawn
Thin sails rising in the autumn sky
And the old men singing while the knots untie
I look back and all the ships are gone
And no one's gonna know
The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow
There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside
And it's a thousand secrets wide
He sold white carnations in a neon bar
And when he turned sixteen he bought a stolen car
And drove all the way to Dallas in the dark
I could fall in love but I'm so d*** young
I try to hold on but then the quick rains come
And every time they fall, it breaks my heart
And no one's gonna know
The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow
There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside
And it's a thousand secrets wide
For every broken branch there is a mile of fallen leaves
But no one knows the river flows a thousand miles deep
Wanna walk on water; wanna walk down stream
I wanna walk back to New Orleans
With the crush of broken glass all in the yard
I wanna quit this city in the midnight hush
Of a pale moon shining on a south bound bus
You never know what you love until you lose it hard
And no one's gonna know
The thousand little secrets that I slipped into the undertow
There's a quiet hunger I have curled myself inside
And it's a thousand secrets wide
It's a thousand secrets wide
And it's a thousand secrets wide