And when my confidence grows dull And the sentences you've scribbled On the plaster of my skull Crack and groan Through the alleyways and passages That tunnel through my soul The alleyways and passages That tunnel through my soul And when the siren sings her spell By whisperings of discord I have been compelled To know her well Means calamity and consequence These have I travailed Calamity and consequence These have I travailed I have peered at the hesitance that roars Seated here with my back against the door I've been detained for years by the coward I ignored Ooh ooh ooh When the eloquence falls dumb A broken voice in bandages Of stutters that become Frail and so numb The silhouettes and shatterings Which I must overcome The silhouettes and shatterings Which I must overcome I have peered at the hesitance that roars Seated here with my back against the door I've been detained for years by the coward I ignored And I have peered at the hesitance that roars Seated here with my back against the door I've been detained for years by the coward I ignored Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh