The Lake - Nonfiction

Pull me from my path

Bury the body out back

Leave the brain intact

No feelings, just fact

The one you love will not come back

Now everybody’s taking naps

On the railroad tracks

Just learning how to shed your mask

And once you’re gone you’ll be right back

‘til you discover what you lack

The birds picked me apart

(Passing through the horizon)

While holy hands made holy art

(The perimeter of silence)

Transferring your energy

A beautiful lobotomy

(I'm never going to get it right)

You shined with perfect symmetry

(I'm never going to see the light)

Sleeping in the heat I find a million ways to blame

Anyone but me

But waking in a dream there’s never been

Anyone but me

I see everything

Feels like we’ve done this before

You’re not special anymore

Broken time machine

Why won’t you let me be?

How you always get the best of me

When I unpack all of my darker dreams

When everything I ever thought I’d be

Is just mislead self-idolatry

I know we can’t visit the past

But god damn, these regrets won’t let me sleep

If the Lord doesn’t paint with straight lines, then why should we?