Waltz - Respire

Through the crowd we gently fall

Faces like caricatures of broken dreams, of broken hearts

This desperate longing rises within me

Its hands tight around my neck

Around my neck

It’s just that I falter often

It’s not resolve, but escape I’m after

And the way that this is drowning

That this is giving up

On everything I’ve worked so hard to keep

So hard to keep

These lights, the way they illuminate

The gentle valleys of your figure as you stagger across the room

In the slow motion picture of our final waltz

You look like the specter I saw by my deathbed

Grab my hand, let’s sleep forever

The air feels thin

The weightlessness astounds me

My worries evanesce with the coming of the tide

It swallows up all of this hate

And I feel euphoric enough to fade, to fade away

Away

Away

Away

From the edge of the cliff

I’ll look back at my wasted life

I’ll look back at my wasted life

And laugh as I jump