Shearwater - Only Child lyrics

Your mother's milk Your father's anger The razor wire surrounding him And far below Their droning engines You lay in bed Blowing out stars The masters of Your lonely kingdom Pulled you along With red-rimmed eyes Through endless hours Of drill and harness Until you fell, surrendering But still they never laid the gun down, only child They sit like lions in a sunbeam, only child And never came down Remember all The roads descending To who you were, for blurred-out miles? You smolder now Coals and embers Under the frost of indolence I see you never lay the gun down, only child You live your life behind a window, only child And as you barrel down a bloodline, only child