The only question now is how long can it take?

It's all hangin' on you

Make your move before you have no move to make

There's no future, there's no lighthouse on the lake

You're just ramblin' through

Endless corridors, a mouse lost in the maze

You gotta calm yourself, just try to concentrate

What survives in the fire?

What's more frightening after all else disintegrates?

(The only question now's how long till it breaks?)

I come home and the door's hangin' open

The smoke alone is howlin', the bathroom mirror's broken

Find you standin' in the backyard, pouring gas on the bonfire

Ass-naked in the middle of December

The shame you don't recall with the clothes you don't remember in flames

Tearin' pages of notebooks and the embers

You make shit fuel higher

I toss and turn all night, then it comes to me

Since you can shake out the shards and the memories

So you've engaged in the scorched earth policy

Till there's nothin', there's nothin'

Later on, claim the wolves replaced your family

You raised your hand against me with the newspaper you carry

Then you wrapped yourself up in our bed

Oh, the construct of history

Then broken time isn't that really wrong

It's a spiral crack drawn with no place, just goes on and on

And here we are on the cutting-room floor, slicing you

Where they don't belong

Toss and turn all night, but there's no relief

I went into your room, you were sound asleep

So I stay for a while, watchin' you grind your teeth

And when you wake, there's a moaning as you rise

You feel it all comin' back, and you realize

You tried to amputate the parts that made you scared to die

Now it'll kill you if you let it

There's a war as the life fades from the world

There's a war as the life fades from the world

There's a war as the life fades from the world

You're a black hole bending backwards, backwards

So you killed yourself, collapsing inwards

Against the windfall, and you have no stature

Shrinking in from all the air in the picture

Don't run away, don't try to break the pattern

Seal it quick on a day in winter