I Know It's Real

I Know It's Real - Raised By Swans

Some distant part of me remembers

Where the missile silos are concealed

The place all endings are imagined

I know it's real

I know it's real

But there must be time left

To confuse the coordinates

Where the whirling birds nest

But how can I climb when I'm tethered from below

A silhouette cut from a glowing window

The other life I'm letting go

Call

I won't turn around

I faced us backwards even then

So this can't be happening now

Just echo's end

Waterfall

Can I be renamed

The old underground's been locked and sold

Songbirds bursting up from the snow

Here

Time returns

The days and nights you stole

Can't I have just one kiss

Was it always so dangerous

Was it all that first hit

And the fallout that preys on the sound

Of the all clear

I sing a few songs to a tattered atmosphere

But more and more

I disappear

Call out

I won't turn around

All those telegrams were sent

From a phantom finding now

And if not now

When

Waterfall

Can I be redeemed

Blood vessels drinking up the cold

Songbirds bursting up from the snow

Here

Time returns

The days and nights you stole

Yeah

The valley's beautiful tonight

I watch the stars take up

Their shields

And no one else needs to believe it

I know it's real

I know it's real