I'm so scared, I just can't go anymore
I keep patching my roof up
Still, the rain falls on my side of the door
Now my hardwood floor
It swells and it moans like it hurts
And when night comes around
I can hear it pray to the earth

How'd you let me get sewed down?
How'd you let me get sewed down?
How'd you let me get sewed down, like I deserve?
I deserve

It don't feel bad, deserving what's left and set aside
To keep latching the days to others
Preferred to negate in the divide
I don't get mad
I just don't get dry, not anymore
I stare out my window
I watch you play in the dirt

How'd you let me get sewed down?
How'd you let me get sewed down?
Won't you send me back home now, like I deserve?
I deserve

I'm so scared, I just can't go anymore
I keep patching my roof up
Still, the rain falls on my side of the door
Now my hardwood floor
It swells and it moans like it hurts
And when night comes around
I can hear it pray to the earth

How'd you let me get sewed down?
How'd you let me get sewed down?
Won't you send me back home now, like I deserve?
I deserve


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    The way I see it, this song is about emotional defences and shields.

    "I keep patching my roof up Still, the rain falls on my side of the door Now my hardwood floor It swells and it moans like it hurts"

    The hardwood floor is the core, the heart or soul, which these emotional defences have failed to protect, and as a result has been warped by the 'rain'..

    It's an extremely laboured metaphor, but the best part of the song is its lovely, cosy, free-form vocal break anyway, which has far more expression in its fuzziness than these clunky verses manage. Nice.

    picksvilleon April 17, 2009   Link

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