One Way to Pray

One Way to Pray - Sam Beam/Jesca Hoop/Iron & Wine

You can see with your wounded eye

Cross the lone narrow streets at night

Like a car crash fighting for road

We'd rather sleep alone

I've got arms that could hold enough

And my love song might ask too much

How your shadow grows bitter and long

If I enter it wrong

I enter it wrong I enter it wrong

I enter it wrong I enter it wrong

I could hear but my hands are cold

You could lend me your broken bones

Letting love keep climbin' the stairs to comb your long hair

You can sleep where no dreamer goes

Build our house more of stone than home

Pray for music with reverend years and a song reappears

Song reappears

Open sky receivers open sea receivers open land receiver burning the believer

Open out receiver open mouth receiver open pump receiver burning heart believer

You can sing with your tired lungs

Know the wind and we'll take what comes

It's a tough road taking the name they'll call on our grave

We're alive on our thunder clouds

Taking hymns out our mothers mouth

Swimming out to the incoming waves

That's one way to pray

Open out receiver open mouth receiver

Open palm receiver burning heart believer