[Verse 1]
Choose to use your heart if even towards the harshest fate
That it may be swallowed, a masticated, mistaken thing
That you may ripely pine in the mammoth nothing of the night
Left to your own devices and too exhausted
To know what you want
I know, I know

[Verse 2]
And such is the torment of the giving of your organs
When given willingly, how merciless a hand can be on you
On you

[Verse 3]
And oh, the sour fear of defeat
Like wounded soldiers all still and slight
Lining like silk all the roads to your marrow
The roads to your marrow, I know, I know
And all the heaps of hurt
Well, they've had it up to here with you
And further, but when you feel it at your hip
Every time how you wish that it was home
Oh no, oh no

[Chorus]
Singing, "Lay me down, lay me low
Let go your crown, disarm me"
Singing, "Take me south, take me home
Hold your own and claim me"
Singing, "Lay me down, lay me low
Let go your crown, disarm me"
Singing, "Take me south, take me home
Hold your own and claim me, claim me (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Take me south, take me home (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Hold your own and claim me"
[Outro]
That we may ripely pine in the mammoth nothing of the night
Left to our own devices and we'll know, we'll know
Know just what we want
We'll know, we'll know, we'll know what we want