Yesterday my troubles seemed so far away

And now there's nothing left to do but watch the choices slip away

And all the voices ricochet – our conversation disappears

In recrimination – voices ricochet – they're just

Words in the distance, like birds inside my head, and

The water runs red – you're a

Stone on the windscreen, you shatter the world ahead


Voices ricochet – you can picture a big ‘thirteen', try to extinguish me

Relinquish me from the damage

It's only mortality…

It's the echoes of carnage

Now the view is all tarnished – the rest is just wreckage

The sky's a varnish, furnished with thoughts of flight

And the pain still visible in light and sound and sight


Dismiss the sky – voices ricochet


Grip is precarious

There's various ways the path of truth can bury us

Too many variables, too much chit-chat

Too much of this and that

Too much zig-zag, yin yang, yak yak


I'm all right, Jack, pull up the plank, I'm aboard

Fall on your sword – a humming repetitive

Feels like a sedative, nerves are the last to decay

Don't worry, it'll fade away


Voices ricochet – our conversation disappears

In recrimination – voices ricochet – they're just

Words in the distance, like birds inside my head


And all the manacles that bind, the pinnacles you climb

To the background of a cynical ‘who' and ‘what' and ‘why'

And ‘why not?' ‘Scuse me while I dismiss the sky


Voices ricochet – dismiss the sky