BAPTIZE ME (feat. Levi the Poet)

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Fragile Bird

"Fragile Bird" is the first single from City and Colour's third studio album, Little Hell. The song spent 1 week on the Canadian Hot 100 at No. 48 and was No. 1 on the Canadian alternative rock chart for 9 weeks. more »

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You reached out to me with a hand covered in blood
A hand pierced - as though to say, "I am holy"
But I am not
You might be, but I am not
Your words were heard but not felt and I am ashamed for that
Maybe I'm just feeling crushed
And I'm certainly in no rush to have a boulder removed from my chest
This is my destiny - I feel I know the rest
So strange how we move
Slippery, slithery, and serpentine
Like an elusive wave of childishness, listlessness, and defiance
See, for while you played the flute, no one was dancing - not even me
Since the things that once made me happy are no longer enough
I've never enjoyed the taste of water
but the drips coming from your lips are enticing me to change this perspective
The stale air does nothing to cover how naked I feel these days
So trapped in my skin, failing in many ways
Now and then, I track all the days
And get lost in the place where I let you all down
Baptize me in the sun of a melting day
I wanna know how the vampires live
I wanna know, I wanna know
Baptize me in the water of a dying ocean
I wanna know how the turtles and sharks live
I wanna know, I wanna know
To allow myself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns,
To surrender to too many demands,
To commit oneself to too many projects,
To want to help everyone in everything,
Is to succumb to the violence of our times.
I am so guilty of these concerns, and am coming undone
But I guess I'll keep a good heart - after all, the worst is yet to come
So please just sing me one more line so I can sleep
Sing me one more line so I can sleep
Sing me one more line so I can sleep
This is all I need. All I need is some goddamn sleep
Wake up, don't break faith with your heart,
Witches still witness in the graveyard, there are
Clouds over Salem and the ground cries out,
But the ghost of Essex County still haunts the town,
And to the gallows go those most aren't sure about
And we are still banning books right now.
I've been reading about it!
Between belief and "I doubt it,"
There's a kid in fine print that nobody
Asked or asterisked back when they started
Politicking the ballot.
I got lost in the callus —
The pressed down press down —
I couldn't find a way to
Bring kindness to malice, so
I built a wall around my self
And now I'm safe. I'm invincible.
I'm invisible to everyone else.
I'm finally safe, I'm safe.
I can't be touched, I can't be held.
I can't be loved, I can't be felt.
I'm safe.
I can't be seen I can't be helped.
I'm safe.
I can't believe the shell I became
as soon as I saw your face:
I-Thou — make us safe.
Armor us up until we can't be found.
I wake up every day to the sound of
threat and not-enough-ness:
Afraid to pray in case you take away
all that I love with a baptism of fire —
Will you burn me at the stake?
Are you with me in the flames?
Are you the flames?
Am I okay?
I'm safe. Take my sword and lay me down.
I'm safe. Wake me up and let me out.
Now I want you to baptize me in a pool of salt and broken glass
I wanna know the pain you felt
Baptize me in a pool of salt and broken glass
I wanna know the pain you felt
Baptize me, baptize me
Baptize me, baptize me

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