The Man with the Axe lyrics

[Verse 1]

If I had to break it down

I'd say it's the way you love to dance

Movin' the furniture when my back is turned

A flick of the lights and the world falls away

[Chorus]

And your office job

And your silver hair

But our shapes in the dark are the reason I've stayed

For all these years

[Verse 2]

I thought I was a genius

But now I'm 22, and it's starting to feel like

All I know how to do is put on a suit and take it away

[Chorus]

With my fistful of tunes that it's painful to play

Fingernail worlds, like favourite seashells

They fill up my nights and then they float away

[Verse 3]

I've got hundreds of gowns

I've got paintings in frames

And a throat that fills with panic every festival day

Dutifully falling apart for the Princess of Norway

[Chorus]

But you with your doll's lashes, your infinite t-shirts

I should've known when your favourite record

Was the same as my father's

You'd take me down

[Verse 4]

I guess I'll always be this way

Swallowed up by the words, and halfway to space

But there, by the fire, you offered your hand

And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan

[Chorus]

You felled me clean as a pine

The man with the axe and the light in his eyes

We've been through so many hard times

I'm writing a love song for you, baby