We Were Never Young Lyrics

Raised By Swans We Were Never Young

from every room hearts spoke through walls too thin to
hold
the weight of what they heard
so fires crept through spaces long left soft and blurred
notes pushed under the doors

frozen to the floor we believed everything
leaves blown beneath the eaves
whirring like a nest of wound-up starlings
we were young

we didn’t heed those things
if birds were singing we were loved
we were young

like the universe

like our mothers were

like these words