The Mute-Radical Face

[ti:The Mute] [ar:Radical Face] [al:The Family Tree: The Branches] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mute - Radical Face [00:22.34]Well as a child I mostly spoke inside my head [00:25.96] [00:27.83]I had conversations with the clouds the dogs the dead [00:31.63] [00:33.13]And they thought my broken that my tongue was coated lead [00:36.89]But I just couldn't make my words make sense to them [00:40.31] [00:41.06]If you only listen with your ears I can't get in [00:45.68] [00:49.36]And I spent my evenings pulling stars out of the sky [00:52.61] [00:54.66]And I'd arrange them on the lawn where I would lie [00:58.41] [01:00.22]And in the wind I'd taste the dreams of distant lives [01:03.58]And I would dress myself up in them through the night [01:07.14] [01:08.08]While my folks would sleep in separate beds and wonder why [01:14.51] [01:57.34]And through them days I was a ghost atop my chair [02:00.78] [02:02.53]My dad considered me a cross he had to bear [02:06.08] [02:08.02]And in my head I'd sing apologies and stare [02:11.64]As my mom would hang the clothes across the line [02:14.82] [02:15.63]And she would try to keep the empty from her eyes [02:20.24] [02:24.06]So then one afternoon I dressed myself alone [02:27.17] [02:29.48]I packed my pillowcase with everything I owned [02:33.04] [02:34.97]And in my head I said goodbye then I was gone [02:38.85]And I set out on the heels of the unknown [02:42.21] [02:43.02]So my folks could have a new life of their own [02:47.39]So that maybe I could find someone [02:50.95]Who could hear the only words that I'd known