Come home

I know your still up there

In a room right by the window

With something that you just inked down on paper

Passing time

Just like I was

Stumbling sleepless somewhere

Looking for an answer

I’ll never see it

I’ll never get it

I’ll never see it

I’ll never get it

It was encrypted for me almost like a Morris code

Colored wires on a circuit board for all I know

Awake asleep the day the night the month or even the week

The clock can only use its hands when it has to speak

I brought these knaves into your house

They made their way under your bed

And slowly drained all of the color that was framed inside your head

You painted pictures with what little energy you had left

Strike up the last match in my pack and threw it right onto my chest

My eyes are

My eyes are ringing

Come home

I know your still up there

In a room right by the window

With something that you just inked down on paper

Passing time

Just like I was

Stumbling sleepless somewhere

Looking for an answer

I’ll never see it

I’ll never get it

I’ll never see it

I’ll never get it

Rings of steam around that ever green

I can still see the ways her eyes would gleam

As she would sit

Watching the engine

Orbiting the only star on the blanket of night

I may have called you that

You may have rebutted there

But the only part I can recall might not have ever been there

Certain details dissolve

But the ones that stay

Cast me in a light that reasoned all my guilt away

But there’s a key to the code

The way we index memories so deep inside of our temporal lobe

I remember when you finally had to stick up for yourself and all I could do was just hate you for it

I should have tuned my retinas

I should have cracked that code

Cutting colors cutting wires

Cutting parts that wouldn’t load

I should have tuned my retinas

I should have cracked that code

Cutting colors cutting wires

Cutting parts that wouldn’t load

Come home

I know your still up there

In a room right by the window

With something that you just inked down on paper

Passing time

Just like I was

Stumbling sleepless somewhere

Looking for an answer