Can I hold your love between my ribs
While you weigh me down to something thin?
When I get back up, feeble and frail
Then I won't see you as the same again
You were oh, so quiet
When I needed you
Was clamoring for something true

Now I, if I close my eyes
I can feel you
Vanish into blinding light
To what I can't recognize
Now I splinter and divide
But go on breathing
Leave me to my own device
Time was all I'd need to see it

Before I quit
I got to vent
But the sorrow draws lines across my chest
Oh, pale in my lips
My chin's so high, it broke my neck
And I can never see you as the same again

I ignored the chatter of my mind
I sink into the scene to hide
All the color is a mess
Is there a means, is there an end to this?

Now I, if I close my eyes
I can feel you
Vanish into blinding light
To what I can't recognize
Now I splinter and divide
But go on breathing
Leave me to my own device
Time was all I'd need to see it

You drift further by the day
You took a twist of a memory that we made
Ribbed with loneliness and shame
All to my own dismay
At night, if I close my eyes, I can feel you

Vanish into blinding light
To what I can't recognize
Now I splinter and divide
But go on breathing
Leave me to my own device
Time was all I'd need to see it