Lyrics:

He fell in love with his ennui
Happy when he had to be
He grew tired of his agony
But that was just a droplet in the sea

CHORUS:
He cries...
Can you see the way I'm wounded?
Can you taste all the falling rain?
Can you hear the way I'm screaming?
Can you feel my pain?

He stands outside in the pouring rain
Hoping he'll never expose himself
Love will never fall upon his heart again
His is just a book upon the shelf

CHORUS

He confused his youth with his destiny
Thinking that nobody cares
His cries were nothing but a tragedy
But he is not a step amongst the stairs

CHORUS X2

(outro solo)


Music and lyrics by Owen Richter.

COMMENTS:

"This song was written in about a day, and out of necessity. I had the idea for the melody and that simple chord progression in my head all day, so I sat down and wrote it all out, and what you hear is what I heard because there was no time to change it in the 15 minutes I taught the song to Justin and Alex. I brought it in, we played the verse, the pre-chorus, and the chorus, and then we recorded it. It's simple, dramatic, and a great song to solo on - that's where the huge guitar-hero solo comes in, which is me riding a lick to death. What happened with the solo was, I did two takes, and I liked the second better, so we went with that. The producer (Anothony Cimino) stuck in the second take, and panned the two takes to different sides, so it sounds like it has slap-back on it, but it's actually two guitars."