It was enough time for each of us to move on It was enough time for each of us to quit It was a dark night, under our new albion Neither of us knows just what we did It was a fast friend, intimate potential It was a dry wind, blowing on the breeze Settle the score now, come back in the morning afternoon Don't wait for me It was a cold day, drunk anticipation It was a bright light, hotter than the sun And the explosion, levels out the dog day afternoon On to the next one It was revival, all along the western shore It was contagion, ideology Settle the score now, democracy has turned the other way To give her worship It's so simple, right back where you started It's so easy, call it abc In the back room, the devils of industry have gathered To set the scene When I wake up, tear myself asunder When I give up, my conformity On a dark night, under our new albion Neither of us knows just what it means

When you wake up from that nightmare Watch your life in disbelief It's nothing that you can relate to Just an object on the screen Get out of bed to scratch the surface Into the endless depths of being Significant but for a purpose Wasted wounds to dig in me In the valley of abandon In the tenement obscene Carve the wood with your initials As if in proof you have conceived This love so dearly split asunder This chemical imbalance beam Fever pitch against the surface My skin is breaking over me You might move to Kansas city Or you might take your love far east But no one there presumed to know now How to escape the air you breathe So now I move in dialectic I'm up and down in equal heat The snow is falling over Brighton My love is waiting home for me It's a delicate equation This highs and lows that rise and fall Watching the waves against the shoreline Writing myself against the wall

When I was a younger child I didn't know the world was gonna roll me I kicked and screamed but underneath There was my fledgling instinct to conformity I didn't know the pain I caused Would dig into my blood become a part of me A shadow stretched upon the wall A hand upon my face when I am dreaming If not for the thought of you When i was an angel suspended o'er the supermarket scene I had my fill of revelation, basking in the illusion of plenty When I was a speck of dust, I couldn't know the universe was empty There was nothing here before but darkness and a tin can on a string Can you tell me where it hurts now Mirror center stage Can you tell me what's worse now To leave or remain It's your decision, so just be brave When I was an astronaut I didn't know the world would look so small I charted and graphed my course But couldn't plan for cabin pressure loss I didn't know the map I made Would be my last resort when we went down A light to shine like we're newly born Hope still springs eternal this time round If not for the thought of you When I was a silhouette I didn't know just how to hold on I tried and tried to reach for you But you slipped through my instinct to move on When I was an aeroplane I didn't know a home to call my own When I was a radio I didn't know these songs might hide their hope If not for the thought of you Can you tell me where it hurts now Mirror center stage Can you tell me what's worse now To leave or remain It's your decision, you just have to be brave When I was a younger child I didn't know the world was gonna roll me I kicked and screamed but underneath There was my fledgling instinct to conformity I didn't know the pain I caused Would dig into my blood become a part of me A shadow stretched upon the wall A hand upon my face when I am dreaming

You tell me to fuck right off You tell me that it's all lost You tell me that nothing happens For a reason I tell you to just calm down I tell you I'm coming down I tell you love Never was so simple This night I dream for two This night it's far too soon This night is flying down the highway We made a mess again We make believe like we're still friends We made a mountain we can't climb Would we give up all we've known Would we give up, and live below Would we give up, the ghost for good now This day there's only one This day it comes undone This day is drowning in the deep end You say that there's no hope You say that I'm the ghost And you say that dying is all I'm good for I say a stitch in time I say that I and I I say that nothing Is all that matters Carry, carry in away I'm buried, in a shallow grave This twilight burns and burns This twilight never learns This twilight love calls you By your name

On the tyrant's metal altar Burning down We’re regressive in illusion As the masses gather round Their indiscretion Someone must be moving In the ancient's we'll discover We are lonely Bodies pile to the ceiling And my language, obfuscation See it clearly These words don't know what I'm meaning I guess I'm just a bird inside a cage A yellow fragment fading into gray I guess I'm just an object for your hate The bloody ribbons that violent ache In the tempest, killing heaven We will find Something much more cruel than boredom The divisions of our time Arbitration Will desecrate our union I'm remorseless I am ugly Just like you A [REDACTED] for conforming On the basis of a lie Sycophants And philistines assume Apotheosis The sublime A wasted world That is ripe to break the mirror Can you tell me Who am I? My disbelief There's no god to find redemption I and I Faded frame The holy word Starving for oblivion As this melancholy life Leaves me empty There's nothing you can take now I guess I'm just a fever dream awake No grace to speak of I guess I'm just an object for your hate So come here closer Why don't you memorise my face

So long now the new year is returning All the broken pieces I have found Sunset on the rose hill in my memory Fly down the interstate I guess this means that you've made your decision Right or wrong well there's no way to know Fly by night the endless entertainment The highway’s jester Oh Carolina A widow dreams when I am up awake Sleepless in the city of your memory I dissipate Alabaster morning never lonely The latest trends Your fashion sense obscene You call me from the prison you've created You're still expecting Champagne kisses in your lover's basement An angel in your stomach flies away It takes with it all that's left of my memory You're not to blame The mistletoe is still left out from Christmas The wine is old but I guess it will do Meet me in the station at the metro Just like you used to Oh Carolina A unborn child dreams while I'm awake Far away where no one else can hear us We fall to grace

I'm so stupid all the time Still learning how to let go Believe in me Hold belief Breathe Would never ask the question Still learning how to let go Let me be brief In Osaka where the pink sky smells like candy In the hesitating afternoon No matter what they say I believe in you I'm sedated past my prime Still burning out the window And lost all faith The flicker of the candle Burn it clean Still learning how to let go And breathe in me In London where the winter snow this year comes early In the effervescent morning dew No matter what they say I believe in you

Sarah are you looking through the glass can you see my face It's hard living when yr in a cage The shadows on the wall break out and run away If they finally taste freedom, I pray, I might do the same Sarah would you hide me In your basement where we got high If you got the money I still got my old supply The lights here are so glaring And it sends me out of my mind Pass around the sedatives In that sweet by and by Sarah I must tell you everyday since I been gone The world is getting smaller Don't know how I'll go on A bird inside a cage Or a drunkard splayed on the lawn There's nobody here as soft as you at the break of dawn Would you find me Would you lose your faith I won't deny That my instincts say run away But I guess you knew that Sarah when I left It wasn't leaving you They will read all of my letters But never glimpse the truth Remember Colorado Remember when we both broke through I wish I could go back to the simpler times that we both knew Sarah I'm too thin now and this body don't look like me I wish that we were stoned in vapid crowd, that fools believe (lapidary rites of spring) But we pass around the bottle like a whisper of a fallen age Smoking up the bible, retribution is all I taste If it were possible if I could see it through I would kill or I would die Just to finally see you Sarah I've been praying every night Ain't that a laugh I'm just making pacal's wager I guess there ain't no shame in that I'm just looking to get silly You always were my better half I'm tedious and vile but you always said I ain't that bad Sarah if I don't see you Don't worry, you're still in my dreams We're drunk and high and naked Flying up on the trapeze We land in the revival where everyone's in disbelief But I'm too focused on your beauty to give them any part of me Sarah don't you wonder at all that we could have been I've given up my future my life was just a whim But if I had you with me then the future wouldn't be so grim So climb down from your mountain Listen to my dying hymn

High up on the mountain Way down to the sea I take up the question I still don't believe The far away distance That needle so clean It fills me with sunshine Night envelops me Way down in the valley High up in the clouds I give up my memory Like I don't know how The closeness of conscience That hate turns to grief Feel the heat rising inward Over me High up in the attic Laid out in the dirt I wake up oblivion Let her get to work That rearranged cycle That repetitive gleam It leaves me with longing To bring you back to me Hanging from the poplar Buried out at sea My love never wanders She's always with me That dear precious angel That miracle scene That plays back unconscious Each night when I sleep High up on the mountain Way down to the sea Praying to a god who I'll never believe

Passing out with Iris The marina's burning bright Drunk on indiscretion Carve the word into our thighs Waking up illusion But she’dd rather stay at home There ain't a world outside her window This life is all she knows It's a mirror that we pass around That nobody can see I'm fixated on failure All my life I have been grieving Hemingway, and Sylvia, and David Foster too So when I'm circling the drain I will only think of you Virgil in the floodplain Is moving me to tears It's the tremble in his hand And wisdom beyond his years Guide me won't you captain Where nobody will go If I see a face familiar I might offer up my hope In the heat of the night In a moment we fall to pieces Pass the lilac wine Like a dream in a desert oasis Talking with narcissus But I don't think he can hear Maybe it's his beauty or the wax Stuffed in his ear Siren song Apocalypse Still playing wait and see In the ballroom you are waiting In the masquerade of peace Spin the wheel of fortune As the fractal burns away I'm delirious with waiting I'm the folded figure eight Maybe it's the heat or the blood that runs my veins But when I open up the wound I don't think you can relate Helen staring down upon The army on the plain She knows that nothing's simple In love or war or fate When we run away together It's obsequious and quaint That we almost can't believe How little misfortune remains Watching from the window As the colt revolver clicks And the night watchmen Is woken up He just can't resist Feeble in temptation Noble in my gloom It's a long road I've been walking dead That leads me back to you In the heat of the night In a moment we fall to pieces Pass the lilac wine Like a dream in a desert oasis Tangled up with Deliah in the darkness of her room It's a blur just how I got here It's a vision lacking proof Strychnine revelation that is putting me to sleep When I pray for my body Feel my soul rise out of me Entry wound in analog Makes Caesar second guess The price you pay for friendship How ambition precedes death Lately I've been feeling helpless Like a painting on the wall But it's too abstract to make out It's my crimson carnival Dante in the back room Has nothing but sympathy For the fate of any traveller Who has fallen in belief Babylon has risen From its resting place in hell But when I'm starved for attention There's no way to tell It's a blue jay that we pass around In this abandoned night The world is only getting older The marina's burning bright In the heat of the night In a moment we fall to pieces Pass the lilac wine Like a dream in a desert oasis