The Wallflowers - From The Bottom Of My Heart lyrics

rate me

Fire on the porch on a summer's night

All of my things are there inside

Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher

I smell leaves and burning tires

Dogs in the meadows barking wild

Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done

I'm not drunk and I'm not sad

There's nothing inside that I want back

Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're at

Do you wonder how I am tonight

Then don't lose time looking in my eyes

Not every tear means you're gonna cry

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

There is nothing but dust

In the layers I'm peeling

From the bottom of my heart

Beats a rattling drum

Marching back up the steps

Into the rays of the sun

Under crushing skies of grays

Paralyzed with phantom pains

Before this room became just a place

Where I just sleep through endless days

Spinning webs and carving names

Where thoughts break up, exploding in space

But I once crossed a quarter mile

Through black pools of razor wire

And cut through the steel

with the edge of a file

While singing rhaphsodies in stride

Hellbent and dignified

Now my time has come

Who you fooling and why?

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

There is eminent death

to the promise I'm keeping

From the bottom of my heart

Comes an army of one

Marching back up the steps

Into the rays of the sun

Pale-faces and hollowed eyes

Buried under ruptured skies

Not every smile

means I'm laughing inside

Two-face and compromised

I've enraptured you with lies

Everything means nothings

and tonight everything is mine

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

I have buried so much

In the layers I'm peeling

From the bottom of my heart

A battle will come

Marching back up the steps

Into the rays of the sun

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

Wrapped around tight

With no sign of leaving

From the bottom of my heart

A ballad is sung

Through a whisper she comes

Into the rays of the sun