Listen / you’re not talking again / I’m touching your hand / it’s cold Listen / you keep breathing in / so violent and tense / controlled I told you / I was leaving again / I meant it this time / I lied I left / the car running again / the doors are all locked / I tried We’re moving in popular time / we linger two half steps in line / the walls of the room are too wide / our bodies get trapped while inside Do you feel it / when you’re lying in bed / the crick in your neck / it’s red Does it hurt you / are you crying again? / does it sit in your lungs? / like lead The dogs always bark in the night / an omen ignored every time / in the flash of the beaming headlights / the sound of a preventable crime / your crime The plans that we made as young kids / were renewed, then destroyed and relived / does it make sense to tell you like this / do you want me to tell you like this? I thought I heard you on the coast last night / it was only a dream