Ghostly hours and days now surround me
Vacant lots that walk now hound me
Now it's clear my tears have found me out

Shiftless winds are all that feed me
Faceless hopes no longer need me
I'm haunted me by this flat, unseemly doubt

All the kings and abandoned stars play
Every vault and every arch way
Each forbidden love, where are they now?

And where's the hope of godly feathers
Bound by ropes and cuffs of leather
I couldn't speak, your hopes forever vowed

Miles away from the nearest root
Where endless paths have worn out my boots
I didn't know that I could be so blue
The only answer I've got left is you

I tried them twice but nothing soothes me
All my threats of problems proven
Time itself is barely moving on

I'm chasing after senseless dangers
I fill my room with eager strangers
I'm paralyzed though all my chains are gone

Your whispered words can only taunt me
While shades of empty choices haunt me
They let me watch; they don't want me to move

I stand embittered and bereft
Of watches seized in petty theft
I'll lift my head there's nothing left to prove

Miles away from the nearest root
Where endless paths have worn out my boots
I'm sorry if I've ever been untrue
The only answer I've got left is you

Once I knew that I could pretend
But every day just feels like the end
If we could just make that river bend
There's nothing broken we cannot mend

Buried dreams in cloaks of purple
Arrows aimed in perfect circles
I calm myself now, nothing worse will come

From prison palaces unspoken
The sleepy drifter drowns awoken
While ancient sounds wait in my broken drum

I lose myself in country dimestores
Turn my back on ghetto crime wars
At least now I've got time for the pain

I spend my money on wishing wells
Strewn my room with empty wells
You seem to have what nothing else sustains

Miles away from the nearest root
Where endless paths have worn out my boots
I've bitten off more than I can chew
The only answer I've got left is you