FOOTSTEPS AT THE POND (Zeal & Ardor Remix)

You were breaking like the ground beneath me, burn up like a dream

I keep off lightning strikes on summer nights on television

Now I needed you to be there to carry me to sleep

That night I tripped and broke my rib cage on a bar seat drunk for weeks

Chasing ambulances, stumbled to my bedsheets

Softly drift off after peaceful things

I had once a release down in the streets

Now hear it beyond, our footsteps ending at the pond

Don't get why you believed in me so much to follow and retrieve it all

That sanctity I scattered so indifferently

Still you called on me breathe you out, you begged the breeze:

"Relieve me from what settles deep and burns down underneath if you believe"

My love's like a battered dog, wanders under street signs

Subside into nothingness

Burns up like a bad dream gone

I guess I needed you to freeze me out

Those corners of your dreams

I think you needed me to bleed out loud

I guess I needed you to freeze me up

Those corners of your dreams

I guess you needed me to leave

Still you carried me to sleep, leaving the dream retreats

Grasping for an older me, some faded image

And it carries you to sleep, breathes out in the fog before me

And cat tails hit your knees to sense some soul promise

To scatter all their seeds, to grow before they leave

For life and all its consequential, complicated scenes

They shake you out of sleep

Scrape your knees beneath your feet

I think we bleed because we need to bleed

We bleed because we need

I just wanted you to carry on and carry me

I guess I wanted you to need the things I needed you to be

I just wanted you to carry on and carry for me

I guess I wanted you to leave

I guess you needed me to bleed

Out loud

I guess I needed you to freeze me out

Those corners of your dreams

I guess you needed me to bleed out loud

I guess I needed you to freeze me up

Those corners of your dreams