Developments - Hands Like Houses

And I can’t explain enough

And I won’t let it last the night

I’ll show you that the image is still there unseen

We get in our way

We’re tripping on our feet

Filling up our heads too much

With words too hard to speak

Drowning in a place

Where the night cannot escape

Commit ourselves into the depths

Exposed against the page

Caught in a phrase

An echo in our minds

A flash, a flood

And it’s burned into our eyes

And I can’t explain enough

And I won’t let it last the night

I’ll show you that the image is still there unseen

It’s darkest before the light

If we shut our eyes to see

The things that we have lost inside the lines between

Between the black and white

Where everything goes grey

And everything’s unsaid, undone

And the negative bleeds away

To reveal the memory

That we waited so long for

The image shifts, the acid drips

Down the paper to the floor

Caught in a phrase

An echo in our minds

A flash, a flood

And it’s burned into our eyes

And I can’t explain enough

And I won’t let it last the night

I’ll show you that the image is still there unseen

It’s darkest before the light

And if we shut our eyes to see

The things that we have lost inside the lines between

We’re so nervous to see

If we’ve let too much in

If we, if we were out of focus or out of frame

And I know it’s a moment of truth

If a recollection reflects reality

Or if it’s lost forever

And I can’t explain enough

And I won’t let it last the night

I’ll show you that the image is still there unseen

It’s darkest before the light

And if we shut our eyes to see

The things that we have lost inside the lines between

And I can’t explain enough, and I won’t let it last

The image is still there unseen