Don't Look Now I'm Being Followed. Act Normal
Hands Like Houses Lyrics

Is this the edge of the world?
Are we so far from everything familiar that this feels like the end of the world?

We chased the horizon down ‘til it hung beneath our feet.
We've traveled so far that we feel like we've caught up with the horizon.

Now I’m drifting blind. All I know is we can’t move closer.
I feel lost, like I can't see the path forward and we've reached the limit of how close we can get to our destination.

I’ve never seen the lights of the north, The constellations are so unfamiliar.
We're so far from home that even the stars in the sky are unfamiliar to me.

We followed far, as far as this machinery takes us, To some imaginary place where the compass shifts And our lips drift to our cheeks.
We've followed technology as far as it can take us, to a place where compasses don't work and it's so cold our lips are frozen to our cheeks.

Searching for some apparent place where floated needles decide the way.
We're looking for a place where our compasses will work and show us the way.

I’d dig in my heels but I might crack the ice.
I want to hold my ground, but I'm afraid of damaging the fragile ice.

Give me some solid ground.
I want to be on firm, stable land, not this shifting, icy landscape.

The frost is sinking in, in my cheeks, in my chest, in my fingertips.
The cold is seeping into every part of my body- my face, my chest, my fingertips.

‘Desperation,’ we name every cape beyond the last.
We've reached a point where we're so desperate, we name every cape we see as a way of keeping track of where we've been.

Frozen senseless. Every day is a winter solstice.
We're so cold we can't feel anything, and every day feels like the darkest, longest day of winter.

The view’s a wonder, but I can’t take it in.
The scenery is beautiful, but I'm too focused on survival to appreciate it.

Sun, make canvas of coastlines, so I know where I stand.
I want the sun to light up the coastlines so I can figure out where we are and how far we've come.

We round each cape to find a bay to call our own.
We keep searching around each new cape to find a safe harbour where we can rest and call our own.

We round each cape to find a coast to call our home.
We keep searching for a place where we can settle down and call home, even though we don't know where that is yet.