Battle Of Mice Wrapped In Plain Lyrics

[Intro]
She walked
Her head hung down
Watching her feet
Move on their own
Restless hands
Grasped at things
No one else could see

[Verse 1]
Dark circles watched
As eyes grow wide
Guardians of the gaze
A high red flush
Of something wrong
Stained the hills of her face
Midsummer blazed
Her rotting cage
Death took his hat off at her grave

[Chorus]
Scarecrows drape the colored page
Marking giant mistakes
Getting stronger in pain of these special things
All wrapped in plain

[Verse 2]
No one saw
Pale shoulders shake
Passed over for shinier things
For brighter birds
With bigger wings
Took up all the cracks
Nothing left for the faint
This poisoned mouse
With paws on stairs
Mottled gray fur
Ignored, ignored

[Bridge]
Rescued dreams of fall
Where brightest flowers dive
And bend quicksands
Right hand weighs in
Low weather's greatest friend
Wet breath in shallow lungs
That drowns quick hands
Like doves, like doves

[Chorus]
The scarecrows drape
The colored page
Marking giant mistakes
Grinning wider each day
Growing stronger in pains
Of these special things
All wrapped in plain
Imbecile's glory day
Spitting coins at the fade
Of these special things
All wrapped in plain
Imbecile's glory day
Spitting coins at the fade
Of these special things
All wrapped in gold