October's Road - Balto

The seatbelt sign blinks, the day is stretched out

Somewhere far away all my hope turned to doubt

I sat awake in the piercing sunlight

With my eyes screaming out for the quiet of night

Got cuts on my fingers, got blood on my hands

And the wounds can’t be stitched closed with fraying loose ends

And the echoes of past love now emptied of form

Get louder and louder as I drift out from shore

How am I gonna show from across this ocean that I can’t let you go

Cuz as the months fall away, ain’t see nothing gonna change

How am I gonna know if you’re alive and breathing anymore

Cuz all the lines are getting cold and I’ve got to show for…

Oh if you had seen me

Collapse to the floor and known why and what for

You’d finally hear me

Come running with help, wipe the blood from my mouth

Where it spilled

And maybe you’ll notice

That fear of your loss has kept closing me off

And at last

I tore myself open

A river poured out after decades of drought

SO COME ON

I’m willing and able

My feet or a plane, oh a bus or a train

I can run

If only a moment

To hold your cold hands tell you life ain’t that bad

Because it ain’t — life ain’t that bad