Between the Breaths

Between the Breaths - Mitski/Xiu Xiu

Lyricist：James Cyrus Stewart/John Cameron Mitchell

As you look to the stars oh you could find

Illuminated in scars a face aligned

I am saving the space between the breath

I am making your place between the breath

As the flame is to snow first love to last

I will laugh in your face like shattered glass

I'm saving the space between the breaths

We are saving a place between the breaths

Between the breath

Between the breath

Between the breath

Between the breath

I've seen it

Ooh and I'll breathe it

I've seen it

Ooh and I'll breathe it

I never said where I came from

You never asked what I was made of

You didn't need to know

You already know

I said it even so

You didn't need to know

You never said you couldn't see me

Never a hint you couldn't be me

I could never say I didn't need to say

Now I'm fine although

It was touch and go

Counting the breaths

Until you

Oh la la

Oh la la

Oh la la

Oh la la

The distance between us solved by a shrug

Just a shrug of dark matter

Just a shrug of dark matter

You thought you saw a new star you caught a fright

You think you wish you may you wish you might

Be saving the space between the breath

We are saving a place between the breath

I've seen it

Oh and I'll breathe it

I've seen it

Oh and I'll breathe it

Between the breath

Between the breath

Between the breath

You never said you couldn't see me

Never a hint you couldn't be me

I could never say I didn't need to say

I said it even though

You didn't need to know

A sky full of messages sealed up in bottles

Smash the omens our days are not numbered

Scream in my mouth I'll barely hear you

Flame to snow

First love to last

Brand on brow

First love to now

Questions posed

Uncut the throat

You don't have to ask

First love to last

Let's meet at the same time every night

Starlight on skin is a million years old

You never asked my age you never questioned my rage

Let's meet at the same time every morning

The blood in my gut is a thousand years old

But you are the sweetest infection you are the sweetest infection

I could never know

I didn't need to know

You said it even though

You could never know

Oh no no oh

Oh no no oh

Oh no no oh