"Excandescent" lyrics - JAWBOX

Tracing oil trails and streaks of black, serpentine
To certainties that never leave you
Impact at the start of the escape, far away
Where no-one's coming to relieve you

Excandescent star
Swallowing your heart

Betrayal's bible is handmade and heavyweight
And best of all, it's open-ended

Excandescent star
Swallowing your heart

Why do you stay
If nothing's left to save?
Eyewitness at the gate
There to validate
The claim that faith
Is not too far from fate
Sealed to the page
The place you might be safe

The weapon comes to cure the wound, it's overdue
You keep the evidence to prove it
And read the scraps like clinging leaves of tea
But all I see is accidents, so rise above it

Excandescent star
Swallowing your heart

Why do you stay
If nothing's left to save?
Eyewitness at the gate
There to validate
The claim that faith
Is not too far from fate
Sealed to the page
The place you might be safe

Is this superstition the one thing to add up?
Your trust that everything will turn to dust is evidence enough

Betrayal's bible is handmade and heavyweight
And best of all, it's open-ended

Why do you stay
If nothing's left to save?
Eyewitness at the gate
There to validate
The claim that faith
Is not too far from fate
Sealed to the page
The place you might be safe