Locked you here inside my head
This room is my tomb of regret
You shunned this life
To haunt my nights
Locked you here inside my head
My clothes on your chair
I breathe your air
I lay my head on your side of the bed
I kiss your eyes
The shutters tight
Close your pores to keep out the dead
This is all I got
A fallen angel’s wing
The high hopes of the past
A flower from last spring
It’s all that I could save
The dead breath from the grave
The beauty of your face lost in the crossfire
The heartbeat of a ghost
Distorted by remorse
A symphony of shame
I went the way I came
The embers of a life
Erupting to deny
Humdrum corpse refusing to die
This is all we’ll get
A fairytale to let
The whispers on the wind
A poetry of hints
It’s all that I could save
A prayer for replay
The echo of the gap lost in the crossfire
The creed of the rain
And the heartache in laughter
The howl of the wolves and the winter’s grip
A fair-weather god and his hymn of disaster
A plaintiff shrug for the world to ignore
Is that all we gave up?
Will you carry me back?
‘Cause I’ve gone from there
A box-office cesspit
A limpness of peace
Pathetic in our parody
Of whitewashed disease
Our escapist standstill
A kiss in reverse
Two short story-heroes
An epic to rehearse
And thought we try
We’ll never collide
Stray hopes and frights
Too banal to fight
And though we lack nothing
For gloom do we strive
In search of a night
With demons to fight
Where nothing is safe
And we’re hopeless and lost
In a world without saviours or light
Sleep deep
Sleep sound
I will watch you
Sailing
Floating
No-one near you
And though you’re gone
Our past lingers on
The grace of my boredom
Reminds me of home
And though you are not inside me now
And not even here
And though all our memories faded soon
You’re all that I fear
