Gale Winds by Otis Infrastructure

Verse 1:
Dad it’s urgent
I unlocked my door without a key
It’s a funny error
Until someone’s chasing after me
The broadest shoulders
Can’t mask a spirit growing weak
A married man at widow’s peak

Verse 2:
A shiver turns into a sweat
A rabbit’s foot can’t see the vet
With only spoons in a dining set
You better hope you’re dinner’s wet
A healthy tree drawn in the bark
Of the feeble oaks that line the park
If there’s a god he missed the mark

Chorus:
Though I’m in this world alone
I’m tethered to a slab of stone
And even though your stone’s not mine
I will wrap around your line
Do I do this all for you?
I was inching towards a clue
Then those old gale winds
Swept up the javelins
And threw them at my head

Verse 3:
On my bicycle
I trace the fault lines in the dirt
I chart the distance between aftershock and actual hurt
Bandaged ankles
Can’t stop your legs when they start to shake
When you call my name I jolt awake

Verse 4:
I got a tattoo of the sun
Next to a gash from a paintball gun
The kids in the street were having fun
I told them I could really run
I never even heard the cock
I thought I was safe as I turned the block
From a thing that can barely harm a smock

Chorus:
Though I’m in this world alone
I’m tethered to a slab of stone
And even though your stone’s not mine
I will wrap around your line
Do I do this all for you
I was inching towards a clue
Then those old gale winds
Swept up the javelins
And threw them at my head

Chorus:
A little voice inside my brain
Is screaming that it’s fine to feign
All the words I say to you
And tell you them as though they’re true
I thought I saw a great big hill
Stretch out past my windowsill
But it was those old gale winds
Those old gale winds
Giving me the spins

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