when listening fails give up and sit quietly ghosts on the telephone static alive let them believe you are listening still let them just hear you breathing
let them believe you'll participate still let them just believe
the sound that summer used to make it almost makes again but the lines have been drawn around this town and its in your ears like sin
shadows on water, the surface folds you in shudder with indifference, those fingers on your skin a ghost in the marigolds, a knife in the folds the watcher is glaring, he is daringly bold
i guess this is another dream, another fading heart i guess there's nothing left around to let you tear apart this building is a graveyard for the things it has seen incapable of holding all the places turned green
i guess this is the past, you snap, coming back in threes and i guess this is a memory of me all along we break the ice and sleep inside the snow because it numbs us and it's warmer than the things we know
there were children on the water, they are laughing once again i guess its unmistakable now, my invisible friend
a long life shattered and compacted a memory, a life refracted when it comes, wings twitch soft knowing they have been ripped off and taken by desperate angels
goodbye town and goodbye moon goodbye promises broken too soon goodbye trickery and goodbye lies pray that the cords don't get cut where they're tied
i suppose this is the end, i shout where decisions make themselves and i guess this is pretend, i shout
i suppose this is the end i shout i guess this is pretend, i shout
98 tiny reflections of you your skin of glass i can see right through a shivering glance into my x-ray eyes letting me believe you're somewhere still alive