Brag of My Heart

Eye on the clock

The old brag of my heart says "I am, I am, I am"

The cold-blooded grip of that famous sadness

Has abated and steadied my hands

So, open the window and let all them shadows creep in

I ain't afraid of the dark in my heart

I'm afraid it's fading

They leveled me out

Now this house is all but vacant

Stripped to the studs, ain't no salt in my blood

Go on, steal my copper wire crown

My scaffold love, she's been holding me up

While the wreck I been comes crumbing down

So, open the window and let all them shadows creep in

I ain't afraid of the dark in my heart

I'm afraid it's fading

Haunted construction sites rise like the tide

I am the moon every time I walk by

Oh, I know lost souls who would kill for clear eyes

Here I got one hand on the hammer and the other on the dynamite

Covered in drop cloth, got a furnace full of outlaws

Somehow the edifice still stands

Eye on the clock

The old brag of my heart says "I am, I am, I am"