Hoffman Lauren Build A Home Lyrics

Build A Home Lyrics

I need to be alone tonight,
This city and her streets,
A cardboard sign
reads help me
And I walk on,
And I run.
I touch you and you feel
me,
I'm a river, I'm burning, I'm a thief,
I leave you and your skin and
your beauty,
I leave you and your beauty and your teeth.
Can you see this
blaze flared up,
From the spark of you,
Now this trick I've played makes
me your slave,
I'll burn you out, I'll start again.
I saw my name in your
hand,
I turned around and ran,
But to you or from you it's all the
same,
To you or from you it's the same thing.
He says we're all
alone,
He builds himself a home,
He builds it out of hair and teeth and
fingernails and bones,
He hides it in his heart,
Then he tears it all
apart,
He plasters all the pieces up with glue and calls it art,
He's a
man with two left shoes,
He's a pretty cockatoo,
His song is full of
sadness but he's beautiful in blue.
I need to be alone tonight,
Alone
tonight.