I've been there I've seen the skyline The view changes every time I look away The clocks go back in time The clouds fall from the sky Panels of glass in the distance reflect the sunlight When I came to I wondered where I was What emotions had I conjured up and buried in my mind? (just to surface again) I walked outside and saw my car was gone I spoke to you but you just looked down at the sink and carried on Could you feel me struggling to move my arms down the hall? Or did you think I was asleep? I sat up and heard an old telephone ringing in my ear as if to try and call me back into a dream where my skin was but a sheen and no one remembered my name Like a homeless ghost Was it longing? Was it fear? Should I have beckoned to its call? I heard the door creak in the warm breeze and lull me back to sleep as reality was tearing at the seams Do you remember how it felt to be a bird? A gust of wind and you're falling further I'll never be the ground Do the snakes on his back remind you of home? Do they constrict you to sleep at night? We relax our arms and hope the wind will carry us back to the place we were born This translucent skin is all I have so take me as I am These bones of dust are all I have Don't let my pillars fall Don't let my structure crumble down Fifteen minutes away My body leaves a fading stain I woke up and watched my heart disintegrate Staring down at the empty space where I once laid

Birds on the roof, flowers in bloom Old snow turns to slush The grass is bearing dew Birds on the roof, flowers in bloom Sun illuminates the dust that lingers in the room Birds on the roof, flowers in you My stomach is homesick again It grabs my hand and pulls me to the mountains Love rears its beautiful head wherever I run Its shadow follows me It's casting darkness overhead Sometimes I find myself falling asleep on the city strips oblivious to people walking by Can you feel the warmth radiating through the soil? Can you decipher words that I whisper to the grass Set to drift Forced away Take this heart away Give my sadness back Wandered off Led astray Throw my wallet in the trash It could never be the heartbroken melody she sang to herself in the morning before the fog cleared and her hair leaves a film on her fingers as she pulls it round her ears Do your insides quiver when you wake? Can you gauge the lifetime of a stain? At each summer's tail I give another flower to the rain We live our lives like passengers on ever-lapsing trains I watch a cactus bearing fruit nine months out of the year I wonder if it knows that they were grown to disappear Like a fawn roams through the meadows We walk these paths with no attachment to the roads Set to drift Forced away Take this heart away Give my sadness back Wandered off Led astray Throw my wallet in the trash It could never be the heartbroken melody she sang to herself in the morning At each summer's tail I give another flower to the rain We live our lives like passengers on ever-lapsing trains The plants grow on and wither yet again And I'll remember where I came from And I'll remember where I've been

Never before, never again Will I know companionship so unyielding, so pure I warm my hands on photographs My shadow is a shell A part of me is dead When I left home for the first time I couldn't stand to say goodbye I knew that he would think he'd never see my face again I still find hair on my t-shirts I still hear thuds on my bedroom door I returned to see him emaciated and lost but he knew who I was At the top of the mountain When you ascend up to the clouds I hope my arms cradle you I hope my voice is the only sound You gave me a reason to come home I gave you somebody to wait for I hope that you're at peace I am forever in your debt for loving me My best friend had hair coarse as concrete I'll never forget him He loved me for who I was

Somewhere behind the blurred line beneath the guise of time a boy twiddles his thumbs on my behalf There's an old dog sprinting through the grass forever To wake up and watch the world ascend and doze off again and the bedsheets leave indents on your back as the morning folds a modest wrinkle on your forehead A man attempts to calculate the distance between electric wires Another hotel floods as the sun goes down The crude machines that scream along the freeway long for their own demise A shopping cart was sawn in half and left abandoned on the street Cold air breathes frost on your windshield a heater catches fire A woman begs me not to call an ambulance as she collapses And all I hear are ringing phones and ticking clocks Stretch my limbs and pull me to the fray Where rivers flow devoid of time and space (We are groundless) Let my inhibitions fall away (and surrounding) Someday We'll break this tired habit of succumbing to the sirens that lure us to our dreams and go about our days Stand up Find the strength Sleepwalk through the day Stumble back to bed We could find our place If we moved away we'd be better then The ghosts just follow They won't let go I'll always remember you Stand up Find the strength Sleepwalk through the day Stumble back to bed We could find our place If we moved away we'd be better then Don't let go