Aftertouch

There are days we seem to speak in different tongues

If you're the air I breathe, then I'm the water in your lungs

I've tried to give you every reason not to stay

'Cause I know it's harder to watch and wait

As I fall away

I fall away

I fall away

I fall away

And every night, I learn the meaning of "alone"

I can hardly face your warm embrace, and so I brave the cold

We both know it hurts to swallow

All the words, the blood, the pills, so I clamber for a hand to hold and still

I fall away

I fall away

I fall away

I fall away

'Cause I've been sitting here in silence

Till my wounds are stitched and sealed

And I've waited all my life, to feel what you once made me feel

But when everything collapsed

There was no way to make you stay

It's all that I can do to catch the pieces

Until I fall away

Until I fall away

Test me, dismember me

I'm begging for a way to be

Out of body, out of mind

Let this poison make me ill, push me to the brink until

I fall away the same

I never said I'd be there

If the rain became the only thing we see

And if we both can't say we're sorry

Can we ever meet halfway?

It's all that I can do to catch the pieces

Until I fall away

I fall away