I face it with my flayed skull And await the morning wind It burns like salt It's not your fault That I have got no skin Crying out into the dawn Until my voice is gone I call I love you through it all They said I couldn't hold you When I tried to take your hand Alarm bells rang The nurse was saying things I can't understand Too warm, too warm I drew my arm away against the glass Is he okay? My flayed skull asked I prayed the fear would pass They say you need me here Oh, and I need that But I need it My eyes scan every place And I stand guard all night In vigil, in warning and in waste Unheeded Wild, too cold and blue But look at those curls How do you do? Though I cannot imagine Recall it or conceive Long ago and far away I know what I believe I know, I know, I know Because they tell me that it’s true That the spell will break and wake me anew So I sit and rock and rock through space And kiss your face and sing The smoke is thick My skin is sick The bombs are whistling The death, the doom The leaden, looming dread is always near But I love you And you are here I feared that it had won I feared that you would never find me My darling son But you found me And though it took awhile Now I look and find your blinding starlight smile Surrounds me We bleed through Clear and true Here with you now I wish that I could show you What I know about this pain I tell you now, I don’t know how But I’ll be back again For bowing in the scouring Wind that lays low everything I love you My flayed skull sings