Snowtorch (Part Two) -

When is a man just a mouse?

When he hides in the house and ignores what is happening

Covers his eyes to the lies that he tells

So he won’t have to know

Hiding away from the fray In a hole in the wall

In a world become small.

Nothing to say

Cause the cat got his tongue and then he lost his balls

What if I said that he might not be dead in the head

But instead he is opening

Into his eyes and his ears it appears that he hears

And it’s always been happening

How can you halt the assault of ideas from the box

When Pandora destroyed the lock?

I’ll bet you probably want to stay away

From all the things you found

Cos it’s bound to drag you down

It takes you further from home

You try to crush your doubts but there’s so damn many now

What will it take to erase the mistakes from the day

When the Fox threw it all away

Look: The unseen escape

Break from the known, take what you own

Cause, or is it some effect straight for your neck

Straight for the wreck that is luring you near

Isolate and take what you get

I don’t want to know, say it’s not so

Out on my own, I’m pleading uncertainty

It’s a long way home, a long way home again

A long way, a long way alone

Ice, nice, it gets you so cold, but you don’t even know

What feelings you’ve folded in again

Night, fight —

I know what I know, I know what I know: That it’s not easy

Bring me stones and all I can eat from these bones

Is this fortress all my own?

I see, branches around, they surround me, stairs going down

I hear breaking — what is that sound?

It’s confusing and, boy, is it loud

Down where there is light, sound, spectrum of night

When we fell to the ground

In the madness, something came out

And it’s moving, dissolving the doubt

These words, these beautiful vowels

These words, these beautiful, beautiful vowels

(Feel the helix alive, feel it inside)

There, they are storming around from the silence where everything’s found

Always looming, like rain from a cloud

Words, and all that’s aroused