Find a state and a meaning that you can justify Behind a face inexpressive hidden from the light Until a glance filled with longing from a lover’s eyes Recalls another time, another place You feel it move towards you from outside your sight A gentle weight held against you that seems to multiply Demanding all your attention, it whispers in the night Was it another time Was it another place Feels like a memory Of the life we made How long did you hold your dreams until they broke you How long did you hold onto your sense of virtue Was the lie so magnificent it forced you to believe To keep alive that brittle feeling that there still could be relief It was another time It was another place Maybe in our next lives You’ll recognise my face

and I was worn out from the side effects looking for a way out but couldn’t read the map tried to figure out where the path would lead with the neon god watching over me leave the keys on the dresser we can talk all night keep the tv playing but turn off the light if you want to sell your secrets please be my guest just as long as you stay I’ll work out the rest and I came adrift like I was lost at sea as the waves moved in and washed over me and the night had a weight that kept a hold of me with the neon god watching over me write the words on the paper so that no one sees we’ll figure out the prescription to satisfy your needs if you’ve a painkilling preference to counteract your vise it’s just a matter of choosing and then paying the price and the lights were out high above the street as the rain poured down washing over me running from my arms running out of faith looking for a way to escape my fate and the signs lit up and they drew my gaze took me from myself into another state as the rain poured down and washed over me with the neon god watching over me how long now how long must I wait how much now how much will it take burned out from visions too bright blinded by my second sight drawn out inevitably fallen from what could have been calling out to the night waiting to find the light and the night was long and the stars went away and the day belonged to those thoughts kept at bay and its eyes appeared like a wound in space and their colours blazed all about my face and it called to me from high above the street as the rain poured down washing over me and the neon god watched over me and the neon god watched over me

For the lies you told to keep yourself together For the wonders that you swore that you had seen For the wounds you caused without a second thought but swear that you didn’t mean You threw away your charm into your resignation You gave away your chance at who you could have been Skipping town to chase an answer that you thought you might have heard upon the wind Doesn’t seem that smart to me Can’t keep away now from the people that you’ve been Can’t keep away all that you’ve seen Take your photographs and burn them as an offering Take your innocence and give it to the sea Let the record show your knowledge of yourself is rooted only in your dreams And their fanged subjectivity Can’t keep away now from the things that you have seen Can’t keep away from what they mean Can’t keep away now from the things that you have dreamed Can’t keep away from who you’ve been For the path you took to find a quicker answer For the nights you tried to hide behind a screen For the desperation tugging at your limbs as you picked open all your seams For the lies you told to keep yourself together For the wonders that you swore that you had seen Come look around now, see where you stand as the map closes in Is it another country Can’t keep away now from the people that you’ve been Can’t keep away from what you’ve seen Can’t help but try to keep the questions from the answers Can’t help but hide inside your dreams For the days still yet to come in all their wisdom For the nights in all their shared complicity For the shadow that you trail so close beside you that you never could deceive For the light as it refracts into your vision For the ground that slowly moves beneath your feet Come look around now Is it another country

Under lights that shine like stars above the street Carving out the shadows stretched from you and me Words unspoken - their voices incomplete Things fall apart now as the silence screams You were on the run Away from an obligation That kept your heart numb Tried to keep you playing All those losing games That drew you to them Like a moth to a flame Signs that only keep you from your journey’s end Flickering against the coldness of our skin A silent memory that scars at once then heals again You were on the run Trying to break the tethers Around what you’ve become With a promised offering And a whispered prayer If I turned around now Would I still find you there? The light is fading But the stars are out The stars are out now But our map is gone In the shadow of the places that we’ve been I turned around and tried calling out your name Waited there until I heard your voice again I waited there, but it never came You were on the run Trying to save your spirit From the harm done But if you ever find That the light is fading My love I’ll keep the exits illuminated

We were young in our days but you were older in your nights with your hands curled to fists against the dreams you had to fight But the dawn held its promise for another path in life and it was the one place that I needed you Looking back on the years before the leaves began to fall we believed in a magic that might keep us from the cold But now we know there’s no winning so we’ve nothing left to lose in the one place that I needed you As all the horrors find their home they take your heart and turn it into stone try and find someone to break it open and hold them close and safe inside your arms Now we’re old in our days but still the dreams come in the nights with their tongues glistening silver whispering promises of light And I tried to forget them but they stayed inside my mind in the one place that I needed you