People Who Eat Darkness

[Verse 1: Steven Wilson]

I live in the flat next door

And I can hear you fuck your girlfriend through the wall

But the only thing we share

Is the slightest nod as we're passing on the stairs

[Pre-Chorus: Steven Wilson & Ninet Tayeb]

But behind the closed doors

The bees were buzzing

Inciting me to war

You're penitent maybe

But it's really not your fault you fail to see

[Chorus: Steven Wilson, Steven Wilson & Ninet Tayeb]

(We) We who eat the darkness

(We) We who eat the darkness

[Verse 2: Steven Wilson]

I take out the trash at night

And on Thursdays I go shopping for supplies

I walk my son to school

And I seem to have the same problems as you

[Pre-Chorus: Steven Wilson & Ninet Tayeb]

But what you will see

Are the threads of what I want you to believe

And all that you hold dear

Is under threat from someone all too near

[Chorus: Steven Wilson, Steven Wilson & Ninet Tayeb]

(We) We who eat the darkness (The darkness)

(We) We who eat the darkness (The darkness)

[Bridge: Steven Wilson]

Well, you lost control

And your kids became confused

Among the powder kegs

With nothing left to lose

So now your chickens

Are coming home to roost

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3: Steven Wilson]

Do you think the fight is real?

Do you feel my teeth are snapping at your heels?

You who tell me how to live

Then you feed me with your poison till I'm sick

[Pre-Chorus: Steven Wilson & Ninet Tayeb]

But pretend that we're not here

If you look the other way we disappear

We want you to ignore

The people who eat darkness from next door

[Chorus: Steven Wilson, Steven Wilson & Ninet Tayeb]

(We) We who eat the darkness (The darkness)

(We) We who eat the darkness (The darkness)

(We) We who eat the darkness (The darkness)

(We) We who eat the darkness (The darkness)

[Outro: Steven Wilson & Ninet Tayeb]

Well you lost control

And your kids became confused

Among the powder kegs

With nothing left to lose

So now your chickens

Are coming home to roost

To roost