Hiding Place

My face was long when I heard a whisper in her song and it pulled me by the wrists like the words of a hypnotist make the silence break yeah, when they snap, you wake. I heard it all before, promise not to anymore but I'm just listenin' to the breeze I ain't beggin,' sayin' please there ain't nothin' wrong tryin' not to bare the bone tryin' hard to hide alone and she bursts into my room carryin' a Bible and a broom screamin' let me in but I'm just hearin' her singin' oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Hearts in trouble but it won't break 'cause the whispers in the dark oh, they'll never know your name I aint sayin' I believe and I'm not sayin' you're to blame but you call this thing love and I don't think they're the same It's just a hiding place. Oh, on the island, just breathe it treats you kindly, but time oh, no, it's never quite as sweet til you're standing on the brink of the open door can't bring you in ever since a child I've been chasin' an image in my head of ... on my bed, under a cloud of sheets Yeah, I could always hear her singin' oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh My hands are tied but they won't stay 'cause I'll chew all on the ropes like they were sugarcane won't stand there with fallen hands and silently wait til you swear your eyes had seen what you never heard 'em say can't erase this ... before it drives you insane and your knees and your whole soul start to tremble and shake and think of who you were before you gave it away and you spend all your money tryin' to feel the same. Gimme some of that hiding place