Prop me up and keep just one hand talking

While the other slips underneath

Steals inches from me

All the lights seem to dim on command
Lifting oxygen from eyelids

Calm yourself

Deep breaths quarter rest fill the lungs up in your chest

Careful not to strain the sound waves you'll save

Just might be that of your own voice breaking

Sounding out the words

Slipping over teeth and out through tongue



Slip down, white knuckle the chair

Bring your eyes back to earth or whichever one comes first

Don't leave yourself hanging back

Right now feels as if it never happened

Why is my face all red?

Why are my clothes all wet?

All the attractions all the retraction and I still feel dumb



Blink me in or blink me out

You got such a great disguise you hide yourself on the inside

Clinging to the side of my mind

Where they'll never look to find you

Never look to see just what's inside of me



Slip down white knuckle the chair

Bring your eyes back to earth or whichever one comes first

Don't leave yourself hanging back

Right now feels as if it never happened

Why is my face all red?

Why are my clothes all wet?

All the attractions all the retraction and I still feel dumb



Running out east of here

Quoting none but fools blowing out all my breath seeping in from somewhere

East of here

East of everywhere

The silence is unbearable

We hold our breath and sink our ships