He was born in a catacomb with a second wind at his back See you round rover, cause when you’re older the memories will fade to black With my guitar and your sonar bells we’ll write a song that gets it right For once I thought that the air was you in the night

You can’t kill the past But you can shove it down To the nerves beyond your brain The shanty past the town In a patch of berries you may catch on And fixate on the exact moment everything went wrong I don’t know where to go from here Isn’t it a mess Everyone’s off at college all i do is sit and hope for the best Alone and isolated Spend months without my friends And the connections have faded Time and time again I can’t keep up with the wait And sometimes I can’t look myself in the face I can’t keep up with the weight And sometimes I can’t look myself in the face And suddenly a year’s gone by And my reflection bares new eyes I don’t know what to think or say But I'm glad I'm not the same And suddenly the silence stops And I can figure out my thoughts I don’t know what’s different today But I'm long past yesterday And you can dye your hair A garish shade of orange Or you can find yourself an attic And lock the dusty door In a pack of camel cigarettes There is an oasis full of promises You can’t make the change Unless you do When nobody’s bound to do it Remember no one else is you In a locked chamber maybe you can find A bigger picture view on the world you left behind But this is real life And you aren’t bound To the body you stake claim With your nerve wires all unwound In a patch of berries you may catch on And fixate on the exact moment everything went wrong Bless my soul God damn woodpecker Red hand I don’t know what to do with the stuff you can’t throw out I only know how to let it collect dust on the ground Raging rivers Broken beds Time capsules Sediments But suddenly a year’s gone by And my reflection bares new eyes I don’t know what to think or say But I'm glad I'm not the same And suddenly the silence stops And I can figure out my thoughts I don’t know what’s different today But I'm long past yesterday

Cedar road You’re such a microcosm to me They’re fighting secret wars Right across the street See the daylight slowly fading Running water running again Hunched over and counting your cards But I know something you don’t Clear the coast Or you’ll surely get found out Meet me at the door For your dispatch now such a microcosm to me (figure it out, jam the signal, tap into the wires, where did we go) such a microcosm to me (wrong in the daylight, on the line, in the line of fire for the rest of your life) See the daylight slowly fading Running water running again Hunched over and counting your cards But I know something you don’t

Constantine Who was wrong When you blamed The bends Oh in your memory You were fond Of the sky And of the sea Oh constantine You were wrong To doubt them And in your memory You’ll deny Your responsibility

Staying in on the first day of fall Was it worth it at all for you? When you stepped out in your grandfather’s coat Did it help with the cold at all? Staying up on the last day of school Did it soften the wound at all? When you stepped out in your grandfather’s coat Did it help with the cold like it used to Rolling back and forth Between your words A spiral wheel Staying in on the first day of fall Was it worth it at all for you? When you stepped out in your grandfather’s coat Did it help with the cold at all? Rolling back and forth Between your words A spiral wheel

Sprawling As it calls you On your lonesome In such solitude Wildly In the smallest space And the locked door That you put in place When I finally get All of my thoughts straight I still leave behind Oxbow lakes You can’t make the change Any other way Some things can’t be done At your preferred pace There could be a million people just like me But I'll never sit with the same stranger again And there could be a million open doorways But I never have to leave this room again You can’t run away From the world you made It follows you everywhere As soon as you’ve escaped Oh Constantine You were wrong To doubt them Constantine Who was wrong When you blamed The bends And in your memory You were fond Of the sky And of the sea How long is your mile We watch the same movie 15 minutes apart I can only hear your voice in the quiet parts I only hear your voice in the quiet parts Hell is human And if daybreak and dawn differ more than compare I will meet you tonight all dressed in despair I will meet you tonight all dressed in despair