The silence of falling snow at night
Reminds her of everything to forget
With hospitals on parade again
Feeding early blooming regret,
She's alone, abandoned by her love
Thinking 'he needed a stronger wife'
And now like snow from a branch
She's slipping quietly
Into giving up on this life

But she can't know it all

CHORUS:
Reach your limits to understand belief in hope
Because all we are are voices in the dark
Cause all we are are voices in the dark

We only control the health of our soul

Millions gather now like the bare grey trees
As the wind carries away their cry
Cancerous lungs are gasping now
And screaming, 'Answer us, why?'

We can't know it all

CHORUS

We only control the health of our soul
So let it all go and ride

Existential, yet sentimental
How obsession taught a lesson
Of want and need, and wanton deed
And to keep in session with self-confession
So squeeze your lifetimes into stanzas
And take for granted green bananas
For we will win this and we will survive
We have it all now for we're alive

CHORUS x2

We only control the health of our soul
So let it all go and ride

Music and lyrics by Owen Burns. Copyright 2004 Argyle Doren Music (ASCAP)

"This so far in my time as a songwriter has been the most important thing to write from a therapeutic standpoint. I had the chorus when I moved to Somerville, and was only able to write the rest of the song when I came back. It has a very desolate feel to it because of the desperation in the subject matter, but it switches over to a quasi-major feel in the chorus to mirror the message. I don't really want to talk about what it's about, I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions."