The Humming Hem

[Intro]
[Verse]
Fluorescent tubes flicker low
Where the weary people go
Silver drums begin to turn
For the secrets that we burn
Typewriter clicks the beat
On this lonely, neon street
Liquid time begins to pour
Through the cracks beneath the door
[Pre-Chorus]
The water turns to ink
Before I have to think
Of everything I lost
And what the cycle cost
My pockets fill with lead
From things I never said
[Drop]
Spinning round the room
Chasing down the doom
Weaving on the loom
In the velvet gloom
[Verse]
Dryer number four
Spills upon the floor
Someone’s wedding day
Rinsed and thrown away
Dreams are bleeding blue
Soaking into you
I see a phantom sleeve
Begging me to leave
[Bridge]
This faded woolly thread
Whispers in my head
Of a life I never led
In a different bed
It’s a rhythm in the bone
When you’re all alone
It’s a frequency of gray
That will never go away
[Chorus]
Tumble dry the ghost
The one I miss the most
Bleach the heavy heart
Watch it fall apart
The detergent smells of rain
Washing out the pain
Every rinse is a prayer
For the weight we cannot bear
[Build-up]
Folding up the air
Binding up the care
Nothing left to spare
Stripping it all bare
Clicking like a key
Setting shadows free
[Breakdown]
I walk into the light
Ending of the night
A stranger’s sock in hand
Hums across the land
It sings a quiet song
Where I don’t belong
I feel the fabric sigh
Underneath the morning sky
[Chorus]
Tumble dry the ghost
The one I miss the most
Bleach the heavy heart
Watch it fall apart
The detergent smells of rain
Washing out the pain
Every rinse is a prayer
For the weight we cannot bear
[Outro]