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