Strangest Things

Starts with a burst, a little word

The sounds so loud and high, it can't be heard

And that's all you can be sure of

So don't say a word

Caught up underneath

Just before the flood

A fight you've had and lost

A hundred to one

But that's all you ever wanted

So we'll be good

The strangest things are happening to me

I've been away all the time

In the end it's plain enough to see

It'll carry away, carry away

It's not in the marrow but it's in the bone

You grind it down to nothing

Until it leaves you whole

But that's all you can be sure of

So don't let go

And when it gets in your head

You stay for weeks

Falling out of bed, talking in your sleep

But I can't feel a thing

I don't understand you when you speak

The strangest things are happening to me

I've been away all the time

In the end it's plain enough to see

It'll carry away, carry away