The Herd - My Sister's Palace lyrics

[Chorus Toe-Fu & Jane Tyrrell] My sister I hear you calling You feel your world has fallen Gather your possessions Muster up your strength and walk away My brother now I'm pleading My sister needs to leave now Let her leave with safety No need for more chasing again [Verse 1 Toe-Fu] Sister mother daughter Not treated how you oughta Cut off by a river Someone burnt the bridge Random acts of malice From up inside your palace Wall's too tall for scaling Who's gonna do the saving I wait for your arrival To know that you're surviving Smoke I see arising Way upon horizon Far from other shores Escaping any laws Get into that boat With your hands upon those oars [Chorus Jane & Toe-Fu] [Verse 2 Urthboy] None of this sh** made sense All of the biblical rules that it went against What are fences for, to keep the trouble out right? What if the trouble is in, who will save them then? And the walls are thin, they hear him go at it again Quietly sobbing, her brother his holding her hand They dare not turn on the light For fear of worsening the fight So alone and frozen, both eyes open Every sound magnified in the dead of the night Their mum pleads and begs him please Tears wiped away with pyjama sleeves Life went about its business of bearing its teeth Big brother being brave gets up Little sister says stop In the kitchen a gla** drops As a kid, dad's so big Enough to drag em all down in the hole he digs [Verse 2 Ozi Batla] She is so withdrawn in cla** But there's a world in her head That they never thought to ask I doubt she would tell them anyway I asked her the other day Are your parents going to the PTA She said they'd gone away Something volatile behind her eyes That makes them nervous And they haven't got the strength to ask To scratch the surface So she sits in cla** drawing rowboats in silence Drifting away from a tower rising from an island Her brother's got her back But he's not always within range So she fights her own battles Girls think she's strange No teachers that I've asked would even know her name And would barely notice If she never even came to cla** I wish that her shame would pa** And mine would dissolve as fast As the dreams of six year olds She is so much older than her tender years I wish I could do something to end the tears Her eyes like a bottomless lake Deep and clear I wish I could do something to end the fear [Chorus]