let's watch words spill from my lips
till there's nothing left to say
till i'm so completely empty
you can look straight through me

i am see-through
i am air
you make me wanna disappear

i am trying just to find me
break this vanishing spell still binding
i am walking rundown streets
highrise backdrop vertigo

i am see-through
i am air
now just help me disappear

i've been falling like this for years
just this once maybe you could fall for me
fold me in your opium arms
wrap my wounds in holograms

i am see-through
i am air
now just let me disappear

shifting skies, falling stars
all swept up in the swirl
tilt my head back close my eyes
follow the sugarless white lines

i am see-through
i am air
now just watch me disappear

are you ready for the twist
my greatest trick i'm going for broke
your flesh and blood
turned mirrors and smoke

you are see-through
you are air
i made the world disappear

now look what you've gone and done
you brought me stardust dirt and bones
where are you now your cover has been blown?
who are you now you're naked and alone?

pansy petals that you've shed
still lie strewn across my bed
much too late to take them back
pansy petals ain't worth jack

moonlight stains your pristine palms
you tersely quip all your qualms
i'm just trying to make sense
of your new-found eloquence

while you're halfway 'cross the world
i'm still pining for the moon
looks like i'm forever caught
in your incandescent gloom

 you slit chinks in my chainmail
the links snapped spilling rings
like pieces of silver
piled up to raise the stakes

all this tossed at your feet
coins that dropped from my eyes
wishes blown in the storm
i've always been accident prone

reaching down for the scales
i broke all the words i gave you
still it all falls flat around me
apples tempting gravity

i see the wind in your stare
feel the breeze that brought you here
pleasures sought and favors bought
these days you're spending awful lot

but it's time we square these circles
iron out the missing links
so we stash our pearls of wisdom
to cash them in before the storm

And now i'm lost
And there's nothing left
And all these words are meaningless
When you played your trick on me
I was looking up your sleeve
How was i supposed to see
this is all just wasted breath
Words on my tongue i cant express
Words i've tried to erase
Words i swallow in good faith
Words that gag
Words that choke
All these words stick in my throat
Words that i could never use
to explain all this to you

Out Of Love

open your arms and welcome me
open your arms and i fall free
close your fists and try to stop this
our lips parted by a kiss

don't think you can ever find me
tripping through these raving fantasies
when you show me faded pictures
i wish i could believe

replicas of whispered truths
fall free from parted lips
lead me blind past echoed bliss
i believe i could wish

once i had a dream
pictures so vivid and clear
made the world seem surreal
arms flung open to reveal
you on my heart like a seal
and i'm falling head over heels
out of love with this

and what is this to you
seal those lips black and blue
mute ravings never rang so true
warning signs long overdue
i could wish i believed

but this bliss is all you
in the sealed vault of my heart
this kiss is all you
in my closed arms
you're all that's true

open my fists so you can see
faded lines of what you are to me
all this out of love
i believe 
i wish 
i could

you stand still and empty-handed
see me blunder through a mangle of shadows
a kaleidoscope of shifting gray
brittle reflections on empty walls
you are the horizon at the vanishing point of a dream

if  only you had seen all the things i wanted to be real
these visions i laid bare before you
i paid your price i cast the dice
as dusk fades into dawn
forget the lengths i might have gone
undo the past that's yet to come

your grasp on this is vague at best
the surface ebbs at my mind
the future that i left behind
i bring you now this offering
of everything that could have been

it might be written in the stars
me to you - honey colored afternoon
you to me - smell of moonlight, brown perfume
me to you - whispered glances in the street
you to me - streaming touch, cherry sweet

it might be written in the stars
me to you - edges sharp, razor bloom
you to me - sickly sores, cloying room
me to you - freezing rain, cutting sleet
you to me - apathy and defeat

it might be written in the stars
me to you - indifferent so as not to presume
you to me - no spark that could ever burn
me to you - mingled boredom and conceit
you to me - strangers never meant to meet

i heard you look at me
then heat
sweat drops thick like honey
lips slip
broken words, fragments, body parts
you, skin
taste your tongue on me
thick like honey
then nothing
nothing lost in a beautiful vacuum
then a shadow caught your eye
was it just a trick of light?
fading fast
can we rest now,
can we rest?