"Optimistic Son" lyrics

I was an optimistic son
Excited to love
Then my parents told the truth
"Evil from youth"
Do I have the strength to stare down these eyes
Until it turns back to a face I recognize?

What would you hear if I told you that I need you
With a need too deep to speak?
Would the ceiling fall and the walls cave in
From a secret too big to keep?
If I fell down at your doorstep naked
Would you take me in and cover me?
Dress my skin in a fresh coat of blood
Here I am for you to see

I was an incubating heart
In your arms, in the dark
I fell out while you were asleep
In the viscera of your dreams
And you wiped off my face and you gave me a name
Added up to a son that could take away the shame, but

What would you hear if I told you that I need you
With a need too deep to speak?
Would the ceiling fall and the walls cave in
From a secret too big to keep?
If I fell down at your doorstep naked
Would you take me in and cover me?
Dress my skin in a fresh coat of blood
Here I am for you to see

Look at me, am I expired meat?
Am I an animal that you mistook for human?
Hold me, I am still incomplete
There is a part of me
I am afraid of losing
Look at me like you looked at me
When I was gonna be
Everything you and our family could need