It always went from bad to worse
But I was the symptom not the curse
And you needed something stronger
You needed something stronger
You needed someone stronger

I can feel my heart, like my last heartbeat
Air escaping lungs, drowning in the heat

Caught in the crossfire of the fake and the real
Paths that lead places I shouldn't visit
Escape from events I'd rather relive
Imagined threat preferred undiluted
Without the powers of sadness
And the attention of misery
In the clear but in the cold
Just waiting for anything to happen

Taken in
Taken out
Taken down
Taken down again

Take 2 a day
Then take the rest
Take a rest
Then rest again

Should your sadness make me happy?
When my sacrifice had no net gain
While we both lose - who wins?

Why do weeks just pass me by?
How do months just slip away
I don't know why

Maybe it's alright
In a different life
Or not for me

You ask me why I'm quiet
I've got so much I could say
Ask me about the future
I'm still thinking of yesterday

In the o p e n
On a blank page
In a place so far away

I can feel you touching me
I've never felt so touched
I feel you have a piece of me
So now I'll lie in peace...again

You know where I stand
I don't I fall
You know where I lie
Inside my mind, inside it all

I have a haven on a hill
I have to climb to reach it
So why...do I build my hopes so high?
I'm running to stay still
On the turntable, on the treadmill
Do I build the walls to keep you out
Or just to keep me in?

all your life is killing me