I Asked for Nothing

And we went down to the edge of the mountain
Where all the world's surrounded by trees
I saw a man wash his soul in a fountain
And I asked for nothing and you gave me nothing so just let me be
And we dream of ways to surrender
And we talk and we laugh and we hold and we bleed
But there’s a house down under the mountain where we walk
By the mountain where we walk to be free
And as the truth needs pain for comfort
We talk in rhyme just to prove we believe
Out in the shade of none but the desert
I asked for nothing and you gave me nothing so just let me be
And we dream of ways to surrender
And we talk and we laugh and we hold and we bleed
But there’s a house down under the mountain where we walk
By the mountain where we walk
Where the light’s never covered in leaves