Cement

[Verse 1]

Cages and cases

Of starving birds and dead things

No longer look anything like they did

When they'd been living

[Chorus]

The things you love you put into cement

In order to keep them they have to be dead

You think that he's yours but it's only in your head

His coffin is not your arms, his grave is not your bed

[Verse 2]

Lockets and caskets

Full of garbage and ashes

Nothing but collections of nothing

You've been protecting

[Chorus]

The things you love you put into cement

In order to keep them they have to be dead

You think that he's yours but it's only in your head

His coffin is not your arms, his grave is not your bed

[Verse 3]

Taking baths in concrete

Harbor a love for things that don't exist

Try to set them into stone

But you can't, he's made of bones and flesh

[Chorus]

The things you love you put into cement

In order to keep them they have to be dead

You think that he's yours but it's only in your head

His coffin is not your arms, his grave is not your bed