Developments Songtext
von Hands Like Houses

We get in our own way
We′re tripping on our feet
Filling up our heads too much
With words too hard to speak

Drowning in a place
Where the night can not escape
Commit ourselves into the depths
Exposed against the page

Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds
A flash, a flood, and it's burned into our eyes

And I can′t explain enough
And I won't let it last the night
I'll show you that the image is still there unseen

It′s darkest before the light
If we shut our eyes to see
The things that we have lost inside the lines between

Between the black and white
Where everything goes grey
And everything′s unsaid, undone, and the negative bleeds away


To reveal the memory
That we've waited for so long for
The image shifts as the acid drips down the paper to the floor

Caught in a phrase, an echo in our minds
A flash, a flood, and it′s burned into our eyes

And I can't explain enough
And I won′t let it last the night
I'll show you that the image is still there unseen

It′s darkest before the light
If we shut our eyes to see
The things that we have lost inside the lines between

We're so nervous to see if we we've let too much in
If we, if we were out of focus or out of frame
I know
It′s a moment of truth
If a recollection reflects reality
Or if it′s lost forever

And I can't explain enough
And I won′t let it last the night
I'll show you that the image is still there unseen


It′s darkest before the light
If we shut our eyes to see
The things that we have lost inside the lines between

And I can't explain enough
And I won′t let it last
The image is still there unseen