suffer prisms of our chemistry
where once were two now there’s the wicked three
you lay awake, then lie in dreams of me
the only place where we can both be free

caress the glass, it’s all you get tonight
nothing will change, though I still thought I might
flatten the wrinkles on your white night satin shirt
instead I tear my heart apart and spill the dirt

labyrinthine corridors spell lonely nights
I still remember you, there’s more in me to die
I rake my brain, the cruel janitor of thoughts
it isn’t real, and never was, that’s all she wrote

corral your eerie thoughs and pile them up
gather your every doubt, it’s time to stop
now light the pyre, dance through the flames and feel it burn
the bright catastrophe, two hearts that took wrong turns

put the ashes in a jar on the top shelf
and every now and then when you’re all by yourself
remember all the pasts that you could have received
don’t put them on a scale, please just forget and live