Light Through the Linen

So you don't know what I'm asking

Or you think I have no right

To want more than is customary

To feel like I'm alive

So we're knelt down on the kitchen floor

Wishing to disappear

Counting down from twenty

For the hundredth time this year

I see light through the linen

When I open up my eyes

After years of this cavernous

Endless nighttime

I see lotus flowers

Blossom in the mud

I see every white petal fight

To open one by one

I see light through the linen

I'm underneath the table

Head back on the wood

And you ask if we can start over

Back to what was good

And something in me dilates

A shifting off the ground

And I come to you like I used to

But with my eyes open now

I see light through the linen

When I open up my eyes

After years of this cavernous

Endless nighttime

I see lotus flowers

Blossom in the mud

I see every white petal fight

To open one by one

I see light through the linen

I see light through the linen

I see light through the linen

When I open up my eyes

After years of this cavernous

Endless nighttime

I see lotus flowers

Blossom in the mud

I see every white petal fight

To open one by one

I see light through the linen

I see light through the linen

I see light through the linen

I see light through the linen