Trying not to die is so taxing You take a breath just to let it out again Waking up is an exercise in trust But you're gonna find something to hold close In the moonless night I wait for your ghost Oh, how we put the days away We just danced beneath the sea of snakes We can bury our heads in our rooms and our beds Until we see those days again Trying to live on is so taxing Just stacking up all those failures and accidents We've thrown away on a mountain of mistakes I've watched in the dark and counted them all In the moonless night I wait for your call Oh, how we put the days away We just danced beneath the sea of snakes We can bury our heads in our rooms and our beds We can bury our ways in these songs we have sung And we can bury our limbs underneath all these hands Until we see those days again