Our buttons pull closed our coats

Most sink but ours always float

'Cause our home is built on flesh and bone

Hours vanish down the sides of our wrists

Magpies dress the walls of our nest

'Cause we sold the things that kill the soul

Our red thread knots the heart to the head

It's the twine that binds our lives

Flowers that bled are blooming instead

You were always on my mind

You are always on my mind

Like the button you seek but can't find

Unburdened of the ties round the throats

Folds make our family float

Cause our gold has no guilt at all

Our red thread knots the heart to the head

It's the twine that binds our lives

Flowers that bled are blooming instead

You were always on my mind

You are always on my mind

Like the button you dream with at night

We're sewn like a blanket of snow

We're the movement below the waves

We're stone growing out of the core

We're the light from beyond the cave

Our red thread knots the heart to the head

It's the twine that binds our lives

Flowers that bled are blooming instead

You were always on my mind

You are always on my mind

Like the button you seek but can't find

We're sewn like a blanket of snow

We're the movement below the waves

We're stone growing out of the core

We're the light from beyond the cave

We're sewn like a blanket of snow

We're the movement below the waves

We're stone growing out of the core

We're the light from beyond the cave

Like the button that's lost when it's saved