Portrait of Us Lyrics


She sheds a million tears on rainy bay windows

Your love like silent winters piled on evergreens

Your care, the cold stone in the fortress we called home

When autumn bleeds malted memories

You named me in my darkness

A prophecy unfolds

Now we’re cowards far apart

All you ever let me know

Love is angry

Love is cold

Love is absent

Never told

(Am I your carbon copy?

Am I your unborn son?)

Love is judgement

Love is wordless

Grudgingly accepts the worthless

(All that your lessons taught me

Life is to be won)

It was you who named me in my darkness

Raised me to perfection

Just remember pain and blame and fondness

Are stored in your reflection

I am a portrait of us

With lacquered claws, I beckon

Grand, sweeping gestures

And fanged expressions

For I am the villain in every story

All I ever wanted was to be more than

Cracked clean slates and tear-stained

Midnight confessions

Forgive me in all my

Failed perfections

Love is angry

Love is cold

Love is absent

Never told

(Am I your carbon copy?

Am I your unborn son?)

Love is judgement

Love is wordless

Grudgingly accepts the worthless

(All that your lessons taught me

Life is to be won)

It was you who named me in my darkness

Raised me to perfection

Just remember pain and blame and fondness

Are stored in your reflection

I am a portrait of you, me, and

Her eyes sparkle in illustrated firelight

While yours are wide in apprehension

Our colours faded in the gradient of time

What happened to those years?

Love is angry

Love is cold

Love is absent

Never told

(Am I your carbon copy?

Am I your unborn son?)

Love is judgement

Love is wordless

Grudgingly accepts the worthless

(All that your lessons taught me

Life is to be won)

It was you who named me in my darkness

Raised me to perfection

Just remember pain and blame and fondness

Are stored in your reflection

Father, forgive me if I’m your carbon copy

If I’m your unborn son

All that your lessons taught me

Life is to be won

I am a portrait of us