House Inside (Future Is Older Than the Past)

No mercy baby always crying

No open the sea out on the water

I see the world through so much poison

Didn’t bury his own father

Just a few years ago she told you

“We think it’s new but the future is older”

I can’t understand how the world could hold up

All this pain and all this weight

I’m not asking you to just wait for tomorrow

Deep in your chest stay sequestered and somber

Now instead I guess I’ll smash my fists on the walls of

This emptiness, baby, this house inside

If you could hope so much, change everything!

But you know the future holds more deadly, deadly things!

And I can’t help you out unless you tell me, tell me things!

And who could have ever known you were running on empty, empty babe?!

When your face is opened up, there’s so many, many things!

These stories of the world before any, anything

Had crawled out on this globe, these deadly, deadly things!

Yet you came back for me, such a pretty, pretty thing…

Yet you came back for me

Such a pretty, pretty thing

The future is older than the past

Every new day carries the weight of the last

The future is older than the past

Every new day carries the weight of the last

Ya if I could I’d hold your face in my hand and stop your sighing

“Oh I know this earth, this earth is just so giant

Got you thinking that you’re nothing”

But mama your pain and your silence

Fills my future with such hopeless

Hopeless fear that the world won’t be my home that

My heart can’t bear this journey through the night!