Yesterday my troubles seemed so far away And now there's nothing left to do but watch the choices slip away And all the voices ricochet our conversation disappears In recrimination voices ricochet They're just words in the distance, Like birds inside my head, and the water runs red You're a stone on the windscreen, you shatter the world ahead
Voices ricochet You can picture a big 'thirteen', try to extinguish me Relinquish me from the damage It's only mortality It's the echoes of carnage Now the view is all tarnished the rest is just wreckage The sky's a varnish, furnished with thoughts of flight And the pain still visible in light and sound and sight
Dismiss the sky Voices ricochet
Grip is precarious There's various ways the path of truth can bury us Too many variables, too much chit-chat Too much of this and that Too much zig-zag, yin yang, yak yak
I'm all right, Jack, pull up the plank, I'm aboard Fall on your sword a humming repetitive Feels like a sedative, nerves are the last to decay Don't worry, it'll fade away
Voices ricochet Our conversation disappears In recrimination Voices ricochet They're just words in the distance, like birds inside my head
And all the manacles that bind, the pinnacles you climb To the background of a cynical 'who' and 'what' and 'why' And 'why not?' 'Scuse me while I dismiss the sky