Raised By Swans - We Were Never Young lyrics

From every room hearts spoke through walls too thin to hold The weight of what they heard So fires crept through spaces long left soft and blurred Notes slipped under the doors Frozen to the floor we believed everything Leaves blown beneath the eaves Whirring like a nest of wound-up starlings We were young We didn't heed those things If birds were singing we were loved We were young Like the universe Like our mothers were Like these words