BEFORE
I know a place
That lives, without a name
But what's stranger still
Is that it keeps me alive

Under the overpass
The warm embrace of streetlights
Cloaked by the dusk
Although no stars remain

Where I go
When I can't think
Where I go
When I can't breathe

Because in this second
It's all okay
Because in the next
It'll be alright

Nothing matters
And that's good
Nothing matters
That's how the story
Goes


THE WILDERNESS
The wilderness-
The blood-soaked earth
Shifted into pavement
And trees to buildings
But it never changed

The wind, it speaks
Of all the tales not told
But by now, all the secrets
Have just grown old

The world is so silent, the city streets
A dream only lived by, fading heart beats
The living never find what they seek

The earth, grew cold - grew metals, grew wires
The times, grew old - grew pedals, grew liars

And it's better to forget, than to regret


FIRE
Fire, ash, burning in a black sky
Empty, gone, embers left as lullabies
We watched as the mansions burned
Tried to forsake every action we've learned

Reminiscing on everything I've wished
Truth be told, we do not live
She told me she saw it as a gift
Truth be told, it's just another rift

The tales we were told are just echoes
Yet all that changed was the tempo
He said we never really prayed
But we always dreamed we'd never fade

When our days, they run away
And we forfeit the war we've fought
This is all for naught
We'll never find a way

But if you close your eyes
Maybe you can hear
But if I close my eyes
Maybe it'd be here


WATER
Lost in a whirlwind of chipped nails
The soul seller- sole sailer, broke anchor
Bleeding broken promises like oil into the sea
To see a dozen mirrors rearrange themselves after me
I swore I'd never see hope's bottle lodged in an abandoned shore, but
It's not like I can remember what I had even hoped before
My mind's left in the waves, trying to form a blaze of glory
Before it all whimpers out like the end of a bad story

The sun glides across the glistening
As if it's listening
As if the night doesn't serenade
As if I didn't find myself in a masquerade
Noiseless- voiceless
All too fast yet all too slow
I've drowned a long time ago
And I don't know how far I'll go


FICKLE
Born, blood-bathed and brick-soaked
In a grave of scribbled, quick notes
Where actions aren't instructions
Where relationships are junctions
We'll fall to never meet again
And agree to follow the endless plan
To vanish and yet still manage to stay
Cause it wouldn't change, any other way
You and I, another them
I say, so, can we just pretend?
Have a little joy, before the end
There's nothing left for us, today
So we might as well just sail away
And if they ask, means nothing more
I've known, rotten to the core
And still I wouldn't trade away
A single bad decision


EXIST
Hands, stayed float
Through a flood with fickle boats
Time, it slipped and past
Sat and sipped the glass
To never be refilled
To whoever, we willed

And I wonder if I spend all my time
Waiting, waiting, praying for someone right here
And I wonder if my life is a spark
Or if it'll fall, right back to the dust
And I wonder, if you knew
What it meant, would you change a single word

Fresh soil, a crown
Unworthy, but found
In the clutch of the night
Cursed to slip out of sight

[She spends all day searching for someone just like them
He spends all day searching for someone just like them]


AFTER
The lights flicker
The night lingers
The city's alive
But it's heart is dead

One night, I woke asleep
Thought I saw a shooting star
So I wished I could understand
Every single little sign

This city wasn't born for us
This city wasn't born for us

The lights, they shine
Like a million fireflies
They shine like nothing really could
And the skyscrapers
Cast moonlight
And the planes in the sky
Replaced all the stars

But it's all cardboard
But it's all cardboard

And though they cast their shadows
The skyscrapers in the sky
We were already bored
Yeah, the dark filled up with lights
As if we could kiss away the night
Goodbye, for the rest of my life
But it doesn't work, and it doesn't work
And we won't be hurt, but we won't exist

It's all gonna be, it's all gonna be
Something else
Something different